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Qualified Health Centers, Rural Health Clinics
Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
Announcement of Medicare Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) Payment Rate Increases
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Updates the Medicare upper payment limit per visit for Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) for 2007.
Date: 01 / 2007
Corporate Responsibility and Health Care Quality: A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors
Author(s): Arianne N. Callender, Douglas A. Hastings, Michael C. Hemsley, Lewis Morris, Michael W. Peregrine
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Resource guide designed to help health care organization boards ask appropriate questions related to health care quality requirements, measurement tools, and reporting requirements.
Date: 2007
Federally Qualified Health Center Fact Sheet
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
A general summary about FQHCs that includes a list of helpful rural health websites.
Date: 03 / 2007
Modeling the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic Conditions of Participation and Reimbursement Methodologies
Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
Discusses the financial feasibility of the Frontier Extended Stay Clinic (FESC), a proposed new provider type to expand services in remote and isolated primary care clinics. Compares Medicare reimbursement for FESC status with Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), Rural Health Clinic (RHC), and Critical Access Hospital (CAH) reimbursement. Includes detailed examples of financial impact for seven clinics in rural Alaska, Nevada, Washington, and Wyoming.
Date: 2004
Rural Health Clinic Fact Sheet
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
A general summary about Rural Health Clinics (RHC) program that includes the requirements for a facility to become an RHC, Medicare payments for RHC services, and a list of rural health websites.
Date: 03 / 2007
Rural Perspective Regarding Regulations Implementing Titles I and II of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act Of 2003 (MMA)
Author(s): Curt Mueller, Keith Mueller, Janet Sutton
Sponsoring organization: NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
Identifies sections of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) that might be of special concern to rural Medicare beneficiaries, medical care providers, and policymakers. Includes guidance regarding provisions in the Proposed Rule "Establishment of the Medicare Advantage Program," which implements Title II of the MMA, with a focus on its impact on rural health service delivery.
Date: 08 / 2004
Starting a Rural Health Clinic: A How-To Manual
Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
Detailed guide describing the Rural Health Clinic (RHC) program. Includes instructions on how to determine eligibility and financial feasibility of RHC status and how to apply to become an RHC. Includes a sample RHC policies and procedures manual.
Date: 04 / 2004
Organizations
American College of Small or Rural Healthcare (ACSRH)
National organization
Part of the American Academy of Medical Administrators (AAMA). A shared interest group that focuses on the special needs and interests of small or rural healthcare organizations.
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU)
National organization
Works to improve the health of underserved populations by enhancing the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations.
Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC)
Federal government
Supports access to primary care services. Part of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Federal government
Runs the Medicare and Medicaid programs - two national health care programs that benefit about 75 million Americans. Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Clinical Directors Network (CDN)
National organization
Network of primary care clinicians in Community/Migrant Health Centers. Works to provide and improve comprehensive and accessible community-oriented primary and preventive health care services for poor, minority, and underserved populations.
Mobile Health Clinics
National organization
Dedicated to providing community outreach via the use of mobile medical and dental clinics. Includes news briefs, publications, and funding opportunities.
National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
Federal government
Works to improve the health of the underserved by recruiting and retaining the health professionals to deliver health care in underserved communities. Provides technical assistance to federally designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) on projects that enhance the NHSC's site development mission. Part of the Bureau of Health Professionals, Health Resources and Services Administration.
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