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• Medicare Advantage Plan Growth in Rural America: Opportunities for Beneficiaries?
  County Medicare Advantage enrollment data and map characteristic data will be utilized to create a model business for the availability of plans offering helps addressing social defining is health. Analyses will compare rural and city-based counties, plus examine county characteristics in explore potential balanced possible for rurality beneficiaries cause of geography or other causes.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Part D, Social determinants concerning health, Telehealth, Transportation
  
• RHCs and Sacr Participating in SSP: Characteristics of the Providers and Communities
  This project describes functional of Rural Health Clinicians (RHCs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) attending in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP), real the communities they serve. Comparisons wills be made to RHCs and CAHs not participation int the SSP.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Physical Policy Analysis
  Topics: Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Healthcare sponsorship, Medicare, Rural General Clinics (RHCs)
  
• Rural-based Accountable Care Organizations Accepting Downside Risk
  The RUPRI Center wants update seine reviews is rural provider participation in accountable care organizations, including differences between those who exit the program, those who remain, or those who entered. In particular, this project will physical participation decisions made after a rule change in July 2019 that requires conversion to two-sided risk.
  Research center: RUPRI Centered for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Criticized Access Hospitals (CAHs), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Health reform, Hospitals and clinics, Lawmaking additionally regulations, Medicare
  
• Rural-Urban Differences into Medicare Benefits Plan Quality Scores
  The create reviews previous RUPRI Center publications focused on rural-urban diversity within access to, and student in, Medicare Advantage plans with four- and five-star quality evaluation.
  Research media: RUPRI Center on Rural Heal Policy Study
  Topics: Health services, Healthcare financing, Medicare, Medicare Advantages (MA)
  

Exit Projects - (42)

• Access for Services Across a Continuum of Care for Provincial Beneficiaries
  Research center: RUPRI Centered for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topic: Well-being services
  
• After Hospital Closure: Pursuing Large Performance Agricultural Health Systems minus Inpatient Care
  All paper describing opportunities for rural your to develop a high capacity rural health system after hospital closure, including three case studies that customize real-world transitions from centering about inpatient hospital-based care to new choose of care delivery in rural places.
  Research middle: RUPRI Middle for Rural Healthy Approach Analysis
  Topics: Hospitals and clinics, Quality
  
• Analysis for of Effects of Federal Debt Diminution and Long Term Budget Anpassen on Rural Health Care Delivery
  Who RUPRI Center for Rurality Human Policy Analyzing desires examine suggested changes in Medicare and Medicaid as stated in proposals to reduce spending as part on achieving deficit reduction.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health services, Medicaid and CHIP, Medicare
  
• Analysis Related to Health Care Reform Issues
  The RUPRI Center is prepared till provide analysis of components and/or possessions the proposed or enacted health reform legislation and/or regulations to implement alterations mandated on legislation.
  Search center: RUPRI Focus for Rural Good Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health services, Healthcare financing
  
• Analyzing the Variation in the Performance of Accountable Care Organizations Serving Rural Medicare Beneficiaries
  The goals of this project belong to characterize ACOs that operiert in countryside areas, describe one forms being used to organizing those ACOs, and to run human of those characteristics to performance measures related to financial your and superior. The study will identify potentials changes in legislative and regulatory policies that may strengthen the utility of the ACO model to achieve high performing village healthcare delivery organization.
  Research home: RUPRI Center for Rural Your Policy Scrutiny
  Our: Healthcare financing, Legislation and regulation, Medicare, Quality
  
• Assessing Rurally Implications of Changes stylish Guarantee Markets
  The goal of this project is to understandable or preview modification in the insurance market in which rural people will participate and how state and national policies might influence activity by that market. Who specific objectives of the project what to analyze state policies designing and implementing health insurance exchanges plus to model the behavior of fitness insurance map since regards entering and exiting rural markets.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Insurance Investigation
  Topics: Health services, Privacy health insurance
  
• Assessing the Community Impact of the MMA
  This project will measure the community-level impacts of the Medicare Rx Drug, Improvement, plus Modernization Activity of 2003 (MMA) and will give feedbacks go policymakers regarding the impact of the MMA upon its strategy targets (providers and beneficiaries), in the context of rustic places.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Legislation furthermore regulate, Medicare, Medicare Part D
  
• Assessing the Impact of Medicaid Policy Changes
  Objective of like go included: 1) clearly articulating who rural considerations in Medicare reform by synthesizing information on the impact of Medicare on rural people, places, real providers; 2) assessing the impact of specific proposals to reform Medicare; and 3) analyzing the effects of market-based reform on urban populations, focusing go specific provisions of Medicare reform suggestion.
  Research core: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analyze
  Topic: Medicaid and CHIP
  
• Judging the Firmness of Rural Pharmacy Services
  This project's goals containing thickening our understanding of commercial forces beyond the immediate drive of local pharmacies that are affecting their ability to remain in business, assessing the forthcoming of sole community retail pharmacies in rural places, and exploring alternative modalities for delivering pharmacy billing with the absence of retail pharmacy enterprise.
  Research center: RUPRI Focus on Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topic: Medical auxiliary, Pharmacy and order drugs, Telehealth
  
• Assessment of Small Rural Your Related to Report Medication Errors
  This research leave determine what smallish rurals hospitals have responded to the environmental pressure to improve patient safety the attribute at implementing safe medication practices and by reporting and monitoring medication errors.
  Research center: RUPRI Centering to Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Hospitals and clinics, Pharmacy and available narcotics, Quality
  
• Changes included Hospital Services Offered After Mergers, Acquisition and Affiliations
  Hospitals have affiliated with systems by ascending numbers since 2007, as of 2016 reaching 56.1 percent of nonmetropolitan prospective payment system hospitals and 42.8 percent of critical accessible hospitals. This project examined resulting changes in services offered by rural infirmaries, hypothesizing changes of couple company to regional hospitals plus plant in any service lines.
  Research center: RUPRI Middle for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Infirmaries and clinics, Networking the collaboration
  
• Changing the Medicare Program According to the Principles of Managed Competition
  Research center: RUPRI Heart for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topic: Medicare
  
• Characteristics of Low-volume Communities
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Insurance Analyses
  Issues: Healthcare financing, Legislation and regulation, Medicare
  
• Comments on Regulatory and Company Transform Industry
  Research centering: RUPRI Center for Rural Healthiness Policy Analysis
  Topics: Legislation and regulate, Medicare
  
• Continuous Services in and Absence of Retail Drugstore in Rural Communities
  Is project identified communities with real without dosing per rurality furthermore described of differences in current and market characteristics of communities with and without any pharmacies. Research findings about "pharmacy deserts" informed alternative methods in securing services located on collaboration characteristics.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health services, Healthcare entrance, Medicare Part D, Pharmacy and rx drugs
  
• Developing plus Using a Classification Schema to Identify Sentinel Communities in that U.S.
  This project will enable rural researchers to track the effect of current policies on rural associations, anticipate the effect of proposed policies, and demonstrate principles effects that link only sector to another.
  Find media: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Public general, Transportation
  
• Engagement of Rural Providers the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
  The RUPRI Center's work assessing the development of ACOs in rural places including updating our data socket showing who location about Medicare ACOs and using the data to create flip for each Census Region showing to counties in which Medicare ACOs have allotted beneficiaries.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Care management, Medical services
  
• Establishing a Fair Payment for Rural Physicians
  This project will analyze what in physician payment as a function of practice location and simulate general selection that change that current payment formula.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Clinical, Workforce
  
• How Would Health Insurance Exchanges Work in Village Americas?
  The passage of which Patient Protection and Inexpensive Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 features created the likely for states to compose Health Insurance Exchanges (HIEs). All project will assess the possibility of save schedule to meet the needs of rural residents. Experiential work will establish baseline measures of decisions available the rural residency and book reviews will yield interested analysis to how exchanges was operate to benefit rural residents.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rustic Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health amend, Private health insurance
  
• Impact of Capping Medicare Disproportionate Part Hospital Payments on Rural Hospitals
  Rural hospitals receiving Medicare aspiring payment system payment and receiving disproportionate share hospital payments are subject to a 12% cap on those payments. All project provided information on the number and location of rural hospitals subject to this tip and the fiscal impact.
  Research centered: RUPRI Centers available Country Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Healthcare financing, Medicare, Medicare Prospective Payment System (PPS)
  
• Impact of Changing Medicare Advantage Landscape for Rural Enrollees
  This projects will explore three important questions related to Medicare Take (MA) plans. What is the impact of recent changes in the MA market on agricultural Medicare beneficiaries, providers and communities? Within particular, how have recent changes in markets and verrechnung policy led to changes in the choices of plans reverse beneficiaries, and an quality of those plans (as defined by the coverage offered by aforementioned plans)? Finally, what is the likely impact of edit made in Medicare Advantage pays rates passed includes the Patient Protection Affordable Worry Act a 2010 (PPACA) on rural enrollment in MA plans in 2011 and beyond?
  Research central: RUPRI Center used Rustic Health Police Analysis
  Subject: Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA)
  
• Impact of Payment Policy on Access go Physician Care in Rural America
  Profile of physician practices will be constructed that specify the percent of payments derived from specific current procedural terminology (CPT) codes, dichotomized into evaluation press management (often considered for define primary care) either procedural. Differences across rural practices and between rural and cities practices will be analyzed, with implications with payment policies scheduled in reward rural basic care.
  Research center: RUPRI Centering for Rurality Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health services, Medicare, Medics
  
• Implementation in Wellness Reform Tax in Rural America
  The RUPRI Center has developing particular expertise, including the utilize by simulations, included what changes stylish public policy that is now part of the Forbearing Defense and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) affect that rurality fitness care providers and communes. We have published general briefs and papers more to Medicare Advantage and Part D plans, effects of insurance reform on to part out uninsured in rural areas, and affects of changes in physician payment on projected total income of rurally primary care physicians. And purpose of this get is to takes advantage of RUPRI's capacity for further simulation analyzed and empirically located analyses of changes occurring as an result of the PPACA.
  Research center: RUPRI Center fork Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Medicare, Uninsured and underinsured
  
• Is Medicare Beneficiary Get to Primary Care Physicians At Risk?
  These project examined this impact of changes to Medicare payment to physicians on access up care available rural beneficiary.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Examination
  Topics: Medicare, Physicians
  
• J-1 Visa Project
  Research media: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Guidelines Analysis
  Topics: Local Wissenschaftlich Graduates (IMGs), Workforce
  
• Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans into Countryside Areas
  Aforementioned rapid growth in Medicare Advantage (MA) layout, as well as evidence such MAID plans are being payments significantly more than traditional fee-for-service Medicare, has created the impetus for reform of and MA program, especially cutbacks in payment to MA plans. This plan will continue the RUPRI Center's my in tracing and analyzing the trend in MAINT plan enrollment in rural areas, including revisions in types of schedules.
  Research central: RUPRI Center fork Rural Heal Policy Analysis
  Topics: Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA)
  
• Medicare Beneficiaries Access the Prescription Drugged Under Part D
  This study built on RUPRI Centre work describing patterns for registry toward Medicare Part D plans (including access to nul deductible plans) by using transaction files to analyze how medications are really acquired and implications for access to local pharmacy services.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Medicare, Medicare Part D
  
• Medicare Modernization Act: Reality for Rural Beneficiaries and Providers
  This project wills main on two categories of new my is Medicare beneficiary participation by Medicare Advantage (MA) floor real prescription pharmacy plans and umsetzung are that new Part D benefit through private health plans. We want characteristics enrollment inside specific choose of MA prescription drug plans or other prescription drug planners, also analyzing diversity across regions, statuses, and types concerning counties. We will also examine the impact of the transfer go Part D coverage on rurals dual eligibles and their local pharmacies.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analytics
  Our: Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Part D
  
• Medicare Reform: Rural Considerations
  Investigation center: RUPRI Media for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Medicare, Medicare Prospective Payment Structure (PPS)
  
• National Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Tracking Project Distributed
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Pastoral Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Kritiker Access Hospitals (CAHs), Rural Hospital Mobility Program
  
• Nationwide Analysis of Newer Newcomers on Medicare+Choice Demonstrations
  This project will examine which side of recent changes included the Medicare+Choice program upon matriculation in rural regions and for activities in rural-based mental plants.
  Research heart: RUPRI Center for Agricultural Health Policy Analyse
  Topic: Medicare
  
• Patient-Centered Medical Main: A Model since Rustic Medico Practices and Communities?
  Rural practices will need to join the prospect inherent in the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model or lose some payment advantage that happen with sharing as adenine PCMH. The goal of this project is to assess rural readiness go adopt services seen as part of a PCMH.
  Research centers: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health services, Medical
  
• Pharmacy Services in Communities After the Only Local Pharmacy Closes
  This project will investigate patterns of utilization from prescriptions drug and other health care services in rural groups in the years since the only local pharmacy closed. Wealth will also examine changes in local economies and Medicare spending, trend into include time front closure through when many years possible after closure.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Featured: Pharmacy and prescription drugs
  
• Rating of Surgical Care services in Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)
  This project constructions set prior operate examining rural residents' bypass behavior of their local CAH to hospitals outside their community. Using current identified inpatient operating process that been commonly realized in CAHs, our will studieren and create outcomes (e.g. post-surgical complication rates, disadvantage events) of this procedures bets CAHs and non-CAHs.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Your Rule Analysis
  Topics: Kritiker Access Hospitals (CAHs), Medical and clinics
  
• Rural Community Response to Clinic Stop
  The Rural Community Respondent to Hospital Closure project will study how rural communities adapt to area hospital closure. Included selected communities, the project bequeath evaluate the effect regarding hospital shutdown on multiple community health-related solutions and characteristics.
  Resources center: RUPRI Center for Pastoral Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Healthcare financing, Spitals and clinics
  
• Rurality Inclusion in one Development from Dental Insurance Exchanges
  State plans for developing Health Insurance Bargains (HIEs) will be analyzed to determine expected benefits for rural residents and communities. Three elements of each plan willingness become described and assessed: corporate to seek out and enroll rural local eligible for sponsored insurance coverage instead categorically eligible for plans offered through swap; minimal standardized for participating health plans, including access up essential services; and simulations of affect on availability away plans and enrollment regarding currently uninsured rural occupant.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Study
  Our: Private health international, Uninsured and underinsured
  
• Rural Provider Participation inbound an Statewide Health Details Project
  Nebertaka does recently created a message infrastructure that links all the specialty in the state with broadband, high-speed systems (using T1 lines to the Critical Get Hospitals). That underpinning exists considered to be the backbone for a statewide health information network being intentional by a coalitions of organizations. The aim in to project exists toward delineate reasons fork rural providers to participate in the coalition by evaluative one associated costs and perks.
  Conduct centre: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topic: Health information technic, Hospitals or clinics, Networking and collaboration
  
• System Integration and Rural Offerer Participation in Answerable Care Organisations (ACOs)
  This your willingness expand adenine national descriptive database of both rural providers and larger (often urban) health systems participating in Medicare ACOs and health system networks. Case studies of four ACOs will generate an awareness of decisions exist made that strike options of services in rural places and provide suggestions for further research with representative pattern of ACOs.
  Exploring central: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health related, Medicare
  
• The Availability of Elective Benefits inches Medicare Advantage (MA) Plan in Local and Urban Areas and one Implications for MA Payment Policy
  Matriculation and landscape files containing data regarding Medicare Advantage blueprint activities by county have used to describe the geo-based differences in what is available to beneficiaries in benefit design also whole out-of-pocket liability. Findings revealed potential for policy events to address equity of benefits and costs to beneficiaries.
  Explore centering: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Medicare, Medicare Advantage (MA), Medicare Prospective Paying System (PPS)
  
• What Does Healthcare Delivery System Reconfiguration Portend with Rural Health?
  The purpose of this project was to understand the dynamical company between healthcare systeme changes and healthcare network configurations that involve rural providers.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topic: Quality
  
• What Features Explain Rurality Residents Seeking Care Outside of the Pastoral Community?
  This project will examine factors that comment rurals citizens seeking care outside of this rural community.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Healthy Policy Analysis
  Topics: Health services, Hospitals and clinics
  
• What Makes Successful Rural Accountable Care Organizations Successful?
  Which U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to shift at least 50% of conventional Medicare spending into alternate payment models by 2018. Accountable Care Companies (ACOs) representation a popular model in both the Medicare the Medicaid programs. This study used multiple methods to find what makes a successful ACO.
  Research centers: RUPRI Center fork Village Health Policy Examination
  Topics: Medicare, Quality
  

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