HHS announces expansion of Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will enroll up to an additional 20 hospitals in the Rural Community Hospitals Demonstration. Ten hospitals are already participating in the program created by the health reform law, which provides enhanced reimbursements for inpatient services. The agency’s announcement explains, “The goal of the program is to test the feasibility and advisability of cost based reimbursement for small rural hospitals that are too large to be Critical Access Hospitals.”
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"Modernizing Rural Health Care: Coverage, quality, and innovation" documents the health needs of rural populations and how well the health care system currently is and will be able respond to these needs. The paper presents data on rural health care quality, the views of people living in rural areas regarding health care delivery, and what physicians identify as major rural health challenges to overcome. The paper also addresses how Medicaid and health insurance Exchange expansion will affect the rural patient population beginning in 2014.
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