The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an arm of the HHS, is distributing nearly $1 billion from the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan to help rural health providers...
CMS has pushed back the application cycle by a year for a new rural-focused accountable care organization (ACO) model.
In an email sent yesterday, CMS said it has delayed the request for applications...
The risk of rural hospital closures has increased significantly since the onset of COVID-19, drawing concern for care access and community health, according to a Center for Healthcare Quality and...
Rural hospitals struggling the most financially are not benefitting from a Medicare reimbursement adjustment meant to help providers paying the lowest wages to their employees, according to a new...
A new study published in JAMA Network Open illustrates urban-rural primary care workforce disparities, demonstrating that while both rural and urban areas have seen an increase in primary care...
A new rural health model recently unveiled by CMS will offer rural providers and their communities new funding opportunities to bolster value-based care through capitated payments and accountable care...
The Justice Department has charged ten individuals, including a hospital executive, for their participation in a rural hospital fraud scheme that cheated $1.4 billion out of private insurance companies...
For-profit rural hospitals were under more financial distress than their non-profit counterparts from 2011 to 2017, according to a new study in Health Affairs.
Conducted by researchers at Johns...
More rural hospitals are at high financial risk of closing as patients living in the communities choose to go elsewhere for care, according to a new analysis from Guidehouse.
The latest analysis from...
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...
On top of 19 rural hospital closures, more than 450 rural hospitals are vulnerable to closure as the stability of the rural health safety-net continues to plummet, according to a recent report...
Nearly $5.5 billion was spent on 20 low-value care services in 2015, according to an analysis of health care claims from the Research Consortium for Health Care Value Assessment.
The analysis, funded...
One in three rural adults have problems paying their medical bills or dental treatments even after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to a recent study by researchers at the...
