Category: Rural Hospitals
High-deductible plans hurting rural patients and their hospitals
Rural patients often are unable to pay their high deductibles, leaving their local hospital unpaid for the services it provides their local community.
As rural Americans struggle for health care access, insurers may be making things worse
Insurance plans often do not cover local providers forcing patients to travel further to get care.
Rural and Safety Net Hospitals Facing Cut in Federal Support
Hospital leaders continue to hold out hope that Congress will protect the funding for hospitals’ charitable care before cuts go into effect in a few weeks.
Six-step plan reduced opioid use in rural clinic patients
A six-step plan that took a system approach cut use of high-dose opioids by more than 14 percent.
Have Cancer, Must Travel: Patients Left In Lurch After Hospital Closes
The first installment of year-long series, which follows how the closure of one rural hospital disrupts a community’s health care, economy and equilibrium.