The FCC formally added Nursing Homes to its $400 million program which provides broadband subsidies to rural health care providers. While this comes as good news for nursing homes, this brings more competition for Critical Access Hospitals as the $400 million dollars cap has already been easily reached each year....
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) new Quality Star Rating list has been released. The lack of a rating for 762 rural hospitals leaves many questioning the usefulness of CMS’ Quality Star Rating program for comparing hospitals. [button link="https://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/176?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170620rapid-response" target="_blank" hover_type="default" text="Read Full Article"] ...
As the state of Illinois wraps up its second year without a budget, small hospitals are feeling the strain. Franklin Hospital in Benton, Illinois, says they’re now owed more than $2 million in unpaid Medicaid and state employee health insurance. The 16-bed critical access hospital serves the area...
Reps. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Gregg Harper (R-MS) introduced a bill designed to close a loophole in the 340B drug program that the lawmakers say unfairly allows drug companies to deny legally mandated discounts on orphan drugs to safety-net hospitals and other clinics serving a...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a map of projected county by county participation in the health insurance exchanges for 2018. There are 47 counties projected to have no insurers for the 2018 year, and there are 1,200 counties projected to have only one. There...
More families in small towns and rural areas are enrolled in Medicaid than in urban areas, so rural areas are more likely to feel the effects of any changes to the program, according to a report from health researchers at Georgetown and the University of...
President Trump’s first budget was sent to Capitol Hill last week, and while a few stated that they liked what they saw, it was declared dead on arrival by both Republicans and Democrats. The budget proposes several cuts to many programs within HHS, including more...