News

• "Critical Access Hospital - Gold Standard Performance Summary Presentation"
  -- By LarsonAllen, LLP, CPAs, Consultants & Advisors
  
• "Employers’ Health Insurance Cost Burden, 1996–2005"
  -- Monthly Labor Review, By Christine Eibner and M. Susan Marquis
  
• "Financing Medicare - An Issue Brief"
  -- Provided by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Prepared by: Lisa Potetz, Health Policy Alternatives, Inc.
  
• "Health Coverage for All Paid for by All"
  -- By Health for Life, Fall 2007, Copyright © 2007 by the American Hospital Association, All Rights Reserved. Health for Life is a framework developed by the American Hospital Association in collaboration with others to improve America’s health and health care by calling for: a focus on wellness, the most efficient affordable care, the highest quality care, the best information and health care coverage for all paid for by all.
  
• "How Federal Public Health Dollars Are Spent"
  -- By Trust for America's Health (TFAH) - Preventing Epidemics. Protecting People. TFAH is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority.
  
• "H.R. 6331 - The Medicare Improvements For Patients and Providers Act: Quality Care For Rural Seniors"
  -- This press release provided by United States Senate Committee On Finance, Max Baucus, Chairman
  
• "Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy"
  -- Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s March 2008 Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy. This report fulfills the Commission’s legislative mandate to evaluate Medicare payment issues and make specific recommendations to the Congress.
  
• "Rural Hospital Replacement Facility Study"
  -- Prepared by Stroudwater Associates and Red Capital Group
  
  
  Critical Access Hospitals:
  
• "Critical Access Hospital Update"
  -- As of August 1, 2002, there were 657 certified Critical Access Hospitals(CAHS) and numerous others involved in the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program (Flex Program). Source: Rural Policy Research Institute.
  
• "State Medicaid Payment Policies for Critical Access Hospitals"
  -- Although Medicaid revenue represents a comparatively small share of Critical Access Hospitals’ (CAHs) overall business (7.2% of all days, on average), Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant Program (Flex Program) officials continue to report that these revenues are important to rural hospitals and that Medicaid reimbursement policies are a significant factor in deciding whether to convert to CAH status. Source:  Rural Policy Research Institute.
  
  Safety:
  
• "HHS to Provide Nursing Home Quality Information to Increase Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes"
  -- This press release appeared in HHS News published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.