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Don’t send another RHC claim until you’ve reviewed these key changes for 2022. A Rural Health Clinic (RHC) is a clinic located in a rural, underserved area with a shortage of primary care providers, personal health services, or both. Medicare pays RHCs for the provision of certain primary care and preventive health services in these […]
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I use the CMS RHC chapter and NARHC website for most of my questions, but if anyone knows of any other useful resources, I’ll be more than thankful to hear about them!
Thank you and please respond with any you know of.:confused::confused:
Intermountain Healthcare recently combined 35 telehealth programs into what it calls a “virtual hospital,” touting the new service’s ability to reach underserved areas. Connect Care Pro will not only service patients directly, but cut healthcare costs for inpatients, the system says. Telehealth is Broad Solution The Utah-based system has 22 hospitals, including regional facilities in Salt […]
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A recent study by the University of Iowa finds that rural patients find quicker access to providers in emergency departments (ED) if using telemedicine than traditional patients. Telemedicine Study The cohort study of patients seen in 1 of 14 rural hospitals in a large Midwestern telemedicine network included 127,928 encounters. Door to provider time for 2,857 […]
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CMS announced over the weekend the launch of a new section on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website dedicated to clinicians working in small or rural practices, as well as those treating patients in underserved areas. The new page serves as a single point of reference for these clinicians to help them prepare for and actively […]
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The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Connect2Health task force just updated its data of on-line access for chronically ill, rural Americans, and the news isn’t very encouraging. In Mapping Broadband Health in America, the FCC identified additional rural/urban gaps in care, especially for a growing number of chronically ill patients whose nearby medical facilities have closed. the […]
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The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) extended the Medicare-dependent, Small Rural Hospital (MDH) program, but like previous statutes before it, only temporarily. Beginning Oct. 1, 2017, the MDH program will no longer be in effect. The Effect on Hospitals The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) explains in the 2018 […]
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