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The Obama administration and several federal agencies have proposed reining in the Medicare critical-access program. That has triggered widespread outrage and fear among critical-access hospital officials and their trade-industry spokespeople.
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Over 800 small hospitals would lose enhanced Medicare funding for providing healthcare access in remote settings under a proposal put forward in a report from HHS' Office of the Inspector General.
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The nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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Change meets challenge as healthcare interest groups anticipate the political outcome—and resulting policy consequences—of next month's presidential election.
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The National Rural Health Association and the Medicare Dependent Rural Hospital Coalition, an informal collaboration of hospitals with Medicare-dependent hospital status, strongly dispute a new report from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which suggests that certain Medicare rural hospital...
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The Obama administration's proposed Medicare cuts of $2 billion over 10 years to critical-access hospitals were criticized by the National Rural Health Association as being unrealistic and not easily workable.
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Executives for public hospitals and rural healthcare providers are looking to 2012 with concerns about the economy, potential funding cuts from Medicare and Medicaid as well as the future of healthcare reform.
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This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association, discusses the challenges of health information technology and workforce development in America's rural hospitals, and whether the healthcare reform law will help. He spoke with Modern Healthcare reporter Paul Barr at the 34th Annual...
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It might be from the experience of navigating rough terrain. It also could be from the ability to withstand extreme weather. Or perhaps it's just from the thinner air. Something has given officials for a nascent rural telehealth network in and around the mountains of California the courage to...
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