RUPRI Health Panel Provides Comments to CMS on Revisions to Payment Polices Under the Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2016. August 2015.

RUPRI Health Panel Provided Comments to CMS-1631-P Proposed Rule: Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2016. August 25th, 2015. Read Comment Letter Here

Advancing the Transition to a High-Performance Rural Health System. RUPRI Health Panel. November 2014.

In Advancing the Transition to a High-Performance Rural Health System, the RUPRI Health Panel discusses strategies and options for creating a pathway to a transformed, high-performing rural health system. This paper builds on the RUPRI Health Panel’s earlier paper that conceptually defined the core elements of a high-performance rural health system. We have also incorporated …

Access to Rural Health Care – Literature Review and New Synthesis

This report reviews important access definitions and frameworks from the literature. The review serves as a concept map to create a unique synthesis of perspectives that may be used by researches and policy makers to design or clarify access to health care providers. Prepared in August 2014 by the RUPRI Health Panel: A. Clinton MacKinney, …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010: Impacts on Rural People, Places, and Providers: 2010 First and 2014 Second Look

These two policy documents from 2010 and 2014 take a first and second look at the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 and how it contributes to reshaping the health care delivery landscape, particularly in rural areas. Prepared in September 2010 and April 2014 by the RUPRI Health Panel: Andrew …

RUPRI Health Panel Provides Comments to CMS on Physicians’ Referrals and Exceptions for Certain Electronic Health Records Arrangements. June 2013.

RUPRI Health Panel Provided Comments to CMS-1454-P Proposed Rule Physicians’ Referrals to Health Care Entities with Which They Have Financial Relationships: Exception for Certain Electronic Health Records Arrangements. June 6th, 2013. Read Comment Letter Here.

RUPRI Health Panel Provides Comments to Office of Personnel Management regarding 45 CFR part 800 proposed rule of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of the Multi-State Plan Program for the Affordable Insurance Exchanges. December 2012.

RUPRI Health Panel Provided Comments to 45 CFR part 800 Proposed Rule Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Establishment of the Multi-State Plan Program for the Affordable Insurance Exchanges. December 18, 2012. Read Comment Letter Here