Month: July 2023

A new report by the National Council on Disability, “Incentivizing Oral Healthcare Providers to Treat Patients with Intellectual and Developmental D…

  The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) presents state-level strategies to address the loss of obstetric services and imp…

  The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a pay-for-performance system for clinicians under the Medicare Quality Payment Program designed …

  Among the key findings from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis: a higher percentage of clusters of high mortality rates were in nonc…

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) expects to appoint two or three new members for its Health Information Technology Advisory Committee.  The…

Using data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) researchers report on the challenges faced by CMS-designated Critical Access Hospit…

 In this cross-sectional study of more than 11 million births in urban counties and 519, 953 births in rural counties, researchers identify hospital …

 From May-June 2018, researchers collected 312 survey responses from patients at a rural emergency department and identified three key determinants o…

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing a significant increase – 276 percent in 21 jurisdictions from 2019 t…

  With global climate watchers reporting Tuesday, July 4 as the hottest on record, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is striving for wid…