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...
Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health have announced a healthcare merger deal to improve access to high value healthcare across the US.
Headquartered in Utah, the combined organizations will...
Senators are raising issues with recent changes to Provider Relief Fund reporting requirements, citing concerns about hospitals having to return the payments during the ongoing public health...
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...
HHS is distributing $22 billion in payments to hospitals with large numbers of COVID-19 inpatient admissions and rural providers, according to a recent announcement.
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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...
The low-volume payment adjustment, new rural hospital designations, alternative payment model demonstrations, and other payment reforms are key to improving access to rural healthcare, the American...
Rural medical students accounted for only 4.3 percent of the total incoming medical student body in both 2016 and 2017, according to a new study from researchers at the Association of American Medical...
Affiliating with a health system prevents rural hospital closures by improving margins, but the partnership comes at a price, according to a new study from RAND Corporation.
The study published in the...
Fourteen healthcare industry groups, including the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Association (AMA), recently backed the campion to Senate legislation that would alter...
More hospitals will share in incentive payments under Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing Program in the 2020 fiscal year (FY) than will receive penalties, according to a new CMS announcement.
The...
Two House Representatives are questioning a bankruptcy judge’s decision to approve the sale of Hahnemann University Hospital’s medical residency program following the hospital...
Rural hospital closures increased mortality by about 5.9 percent overall, while urban hospital closures had no measurable impact on mortality, according to a recently published National Bureau of...
As many as 55 percent of rural hospitals – or 1,037 hospitals – would be at a high risk of closure under a Medicare public option, revealed a recent analysis conducted by Navigant...
Physicians want more than competitive compensation to work at a rural hospital. They are also looking for the autonomy and the right cultural fit, according to a new survey conducted by Jackson...
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded $20 million in grants to increase the rural workforce through new rural residency programs, HHS recently announced.
Twenty-seven...
