Critical Access Hospitals News and Resources for Healthcare

House Reps Ask HHS to Clarify Critical Access Hospital Payment Rule

July 26, 2022 - A bipartisan group of 25 House members has asked HHS to clarify its plans regarding the enforcement of Medicare’s 96-hour payment rule for critical access hospitals (CAHs) following the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, the members expressed concern about the consequences CAHs may...

High-Impact CARES Act Funds Were Disproportionately Distributed

October 25, 2021 by Victoria Bailey

Hospitals that had stronger pre-pandemic finances received a disproportionate amount of high-impact funds through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, a JAMA Health Forum...

Number of Medicare-Dependent Hospitals Falls by 28%

March 02, 2020 by Jacqueline LaPointe

The number of hospitals treating disproportionate volumes of Medicare beneficiaries declined by 28 percent from 2011 through 2017, and these Medicare-dependent hospitals (MDHs) received less additional...

Revenue Cycle Steering Committee Improves Financial Health

October 10, 2019 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Leaders consider North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Montana a community hospital. But for revenue cycle management staff at the non-profit, critical access hospital with 25 beds, that sense of...

41% of Rural Hospitals Operating with Negative Margins

July 06, 2017 by Jacqueline LaPointe

Approximately 41 percent of rural hospitals faced negative operating margins in 2016, a recent Chartis Group and iVantage Health Analytics study of over 2,100 rural hospitals revealed. Researchers...

How MACRA, MIPS Will Impact Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs

May 03, 2016 by Catherine Sampson

MACRA means different things to various types of healthcare providers, such as critical access hospitals, rural health clinics and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Although the new MACRA framework...