Can the RHT initiative turn the deepening decline of rural healthcare around? Who will take on the challenges to not just spend the $50B but change the rural healthcare landscape? Here is what’s in the news this month.
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By Amy Oliver – I have always cared about healthcare access and equity. But recently it stopped being just a professional conviction and became something messier and more specific, the kind of care that comes from watching the system fail someone you love and not being able to do anything about the system, only about showing up.
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez – As the Trump administration’s January deadline looms for states to enforce new Medicaid work requirements, some state lawmakers are turning the tables by pushing to publicly name the largest companies that have employees enrolled in the government program covering low-income and disabled people.
Can the RHT initiative turn the deepening decline of rural healthcare around? Who will take on the challenges to not just spend the $50B but change the rural healthcare landscape? Here is what’s in the news this month.
By Amit Bhatnagar – A 53-year-old woman moved through the ordinary processes of modern medicine in precisely the way the system demands. She had imaging done after suspicious findings appeared on a mammogram, then a biopsy, followed by a pathology report confirming malignancy. The result existed and had not been…
By Peter Justen – Hospitals across the country are facing mounting financial pressure, particularly in rural communities where margins are already thin and access to care is increasingly fragile. Rising uncompensated care, growing administrative complexity, and continued Medicaid uncertainty are placing additional strain on systems already operating with limited resources.
By Arielle Zionts and Sarah Jane Tribble – In Maine, state health officials hoped to steer a slice of $190 million in new federal rural health funding to shield hospitals and clinics from the fallout caused by cuts to federal health programs. Their plan would have helped pay to treat low-income, uninsured patients.
Can the RHT initiative turn the deepening decline of rural healthcare around? Who will take on the challenges to not just spend the $50B but change the rural healthcare landscape? Here is what’s in the news this month.
By Tony Schueth – I’ve spent a large part of my career working in and around pharmacy interoperability (though we haven’t always called it that), from early on with a PBM to over two decades of NCPDP standards work for various clients. It’s an area I keep coming back to, not out of habit, but because I see the gap between what pharmacists can do and what we enable them to do remains significant.