Rural Health Care Leadership Conference News Coverage

The 黑料正能量 Association鈥檚 2022 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, February 6-9, Phoenix, AZ, brings together top practitioners and thinkers to share strategies and resources for accelerating the shift to a more integrated and sustainable rural health system. We鈥檒l examine the most significant operational, financial and environmental challenges including the post-pandemic impact on rural hospitals and their communities, and present innovative approaches that will enable you to transform your organization鈥檚 care delivery model and business practices.

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Rural hospitals are their community鈥檚 anchor.
As urged by AHA, states may immediately use alternative ways to document that a critical access hospital is a 鈥渘ecessary provider,鈥 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced today
Tomorrow is National Rural Health Day. There is no better time for the nation鈥檚 nearly 2,000 small and rural hospitals to join the AHA in thanking our rural health champions in Congress.
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to allow a wider variety of documentation to support a critical access hospital鈥檚 necessary provider designation, consistent wit
Passage of the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, or PARTS Act, H.R. 1611/S. 257, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act, H.R. 169/S.
Passage of the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act, or PARTS Act, H.R. 1611/S. 257, the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act, H.R. 169/S.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services anticipates that the July update to the Hospital Compare website will include performance data reported voluntarily by critical access hospitals, th
Rural hospital leaders today made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥 like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeut
Rural hospital leaders made their case for regulatory relief from federal policies 鈥 like the 96-hour physician certification requirement, direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic ser
Requiring critical access hospitals that are less than 15 miles from another hospital to revert to the hospital prospective payment system would generate modest savings for Medicare but likely be d
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should seek legislation to reduce swing-bed reimbursement rates for critical access hospitals from 101% of reasonable costs to the daily rates paid
The AHA Friday applauded the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality鈥檚 proposal to shorten the Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient experience surv
Essentia Health, an integrated health care delivery system based in Duluth, Minn., provides telehealth services to patients at 26 of its roughly 80 rural health clinics, small rural hospitals and l
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Jon Tester (D-MT) today introduced a Senate companion to the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S. 258/H.R.