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NewsState panel recommends equitable funding to public, private hospitals
A panel appointed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott to determine whether the state's public hospitals provide better or worse care than private ones recommended some major changes to public healthcare Read more...
Rural hospitals hard hit by Medicare cuts
Rural hospitals in Colorado may be forced to stop treating Medicare patients in the face of a 22 percent reimbursement cut, reports the Colorado Public News. Such cuts would cost rural hospitals $6 Read more...
Rural hospitals could lose critical access designation
Under budget proposal recommendations, small, rural hospitals could lose their critical access designation under new criteria. With a narrower definition of what is a critical access hospital, an Read more...
Advanced Payment Model to lure critical access hospitals, rural providers
Besides the highly anticipated Medicare Shared Savings Program announced yesterday, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) launched a complementary program, the Advanced Payment Model. Read more...
Big, teaching hospitals missing from Joint Commission top-performers list
Although the Joint Commission's top-performers list honored 405 hospitals for successfully delivering evidence-based care, it also served as a warning to larger hospitals and academic medical Read more...
Rural hospitals partner with larger systems to survive
State budget cuts are expected to hit rural hospitals especially hard, as they already struggle with limited financial and workforce resources. To continue serving their oftentimes isolated Read more...
Poorer hospital care in disappearing rural America
Rural American populations are at an all-time low, making up only 16 percent of the national population, reports the Associated Press (AP) today. In addition, they face a greater lack of access to Read more...
JAMA study: Isolated, rural hospitals have poorer quality
Despite efforts tying quality of care to provider reimbursements, a study published in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association found that critical access hospitals (CAHs) in Read more...
Low-income patients flood rural EDs
Although rural areas typically suffer from limited access to emergency care, the emergency departments (ED) that are available experience a lot of activity, with most of it from low-income patients. Read more...
Preventable hospital stays more common for older patients
As healthcare costs spiral out of control, inpatient hospital stays for chronic or acute conditions that could have been handled on an outpatient basis continue to be an area ripe for cost cutting. Read more...
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