Telehealth in Action: Digital Navigators Connect Patients to Care
Digital navigators teach people how to use telehealth and technology. Learn about how one of the HRSA-funded Telehealth Resource Centers created a c…
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Information Session Offered on CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule
Tuesday, March 26 at 1:00 pm Eastern In January, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule to enhance access to health …
36 Rural Hospitals Have Closed Since 2020
From Becker’s Hospital CFO Report Jellico (Tenn.) Regional Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility, closed March 9, making it the 36th rural hos…
Report to Congress from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Evaluating FFS Payments
A report to Congress from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) evaluates Medicare’s fee-for-service payments to providers, the Medicare…
Commission Reports to Congress on Medicaid and CHIP
Also known as MACPAC, the non-partisan Medicaid and CHIP Payment Advisory Commission conducts analysis and makes recommendations to Congress about pol…
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Postpartum Abuse Screening Among Rural US Residents who Gave Birth 2016-2020
The University of Minnesota describes rates of self-reported intimate partner violence among rural residents before or during pregnancy, and the frequ…
Findings Released on Rural-Urban Differences in Housing Cost Burden Across the U.S.
The University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center examines rural-urban differences in housing affordability across Census regions, divisions, s…
Prevent or Treat: Availability of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Dialysis in High Need Rural Counties
Researchers from the Rural and Minority Health Research Center assess the availability of in-county diabetes self-management education and dialysis ac…
New campaign highlights the life-saving impact of naloxone in reversing an opioid overdose
How many lives could be saved if more people carried naloxone and were trained to recognize the signs of overdose? Many of us know and care about at l…
New report shows need for action to prevent pregnancy-related deaths as numbers increase
New data collected and analyzed by the Arizona Department of Health Services’ Maternal Mortality Review Program shows that people of color are exper…
