AHA comments on proposed parameters for 2024 Health Insurance MarketplacesCommenting today on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024, AHA voiced support for proposals to designate certain behavioral health provider types and Rural Emergency Hospitals as essential community providers; ease enrollment and increase consumer access to navigators and assisters; and clarify standardized health plan coverage while giving plans flexibility to test different benefit structures; among other provisions.
The Federal Communications Commission today released a final rule adopting changes proposed last year to the Rural Health Care Program to improve the…
Quality improvement initiatives create “a living, breathing network of providers and patients working together to achieve optimal outcomes for all communities…
The values of rural America mirror those of health care quality: people first. The challenge of delivering equitable, effective care is particularly acute in…
On this episode, I talk with Jennifer Havens, CEO of UnityPoint Health – Grinnell Regional Medical Center, a 49-bed hospital serving several counties in Iowa…
America’s hospitals and health systems are places of healing, hope, comfort and caring. Today, they also face many challenges that jeopardize their ability to…
Nearly 1,200 health care leaders from rural hospitals, health systems and health clinics, as well as rural associations and community health organizations,…