NRHA's Rural Health Voices blog offers informed commentary on the latest news in rural health care from NRHA staff and editorials from selected contributors.
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Alan Morgan
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From Paul Barr at ModernHealthcare.com:
OCHIN, a not-for-profit health...
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Alan Morgan
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The Senate and House of Representatives are both in session this week. Among other things, both chambers continue to focus on the budget for FY 2012. Senate...
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Alan Morgan
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Author:
Alan Morgan
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Congress has returned from its two week recess and will be in session or in official constituent work periods from now until Memorial Day. This week the House will be considering a number of changes and repeals to the Affordable Care Act including de-funding state exchange subsidies and school based health clinics. The House will also consider legislation that would add more explicit language outlawing federally funded abortions. The Senate is not scheduled to hold any votes on health...
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Author:
Alan Morgan
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Alan Morgan
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The Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) is sponsoring a photo contest to highlight the amazing work that rural nurses are doing. CCNA's goal is to contribute to a repository of images of nurses as they work to achieve the highest quality of health care for all AmericansOutstanding pictures will be featured at an AARP Solutions Forum co-hosted by NRHA, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and AARP on June 13, 2011. Photos from the previous contest have been used in multiple...
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Author:
Alan Morgan
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The Senate and House of Representatives have entered a two week recess period. No new legislation will be introduced during this time nor will hearings be held. Both chambers will reconvene on May 2nd and work through the month of May. The next recess will correlate with Memorial Day (May 30th).
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Alan Morgan
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Today the House of Representatives passed H. Con. Res 34, the Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Resolution. This legislation seeks to balance the national budget by cutting government spending and reforming Medicare and Medicaid. The plan would cut an estimated $6.2 trillion over 10 years, and reduce cumulative deficits by $4.4 trillion...
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Alan Morgan
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Yesterday, both the Senate and House of Representatives passed H.R. 1473, the full-year spending agreement for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011. This bill, the result of a long series of negotiations between Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama, ultimately averted a possible government shutdown.
The full-term CR contains unprecedented non-defense discretionary cuts. It would reduce discretionary spending for the rest of the year by...
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Alan Morgan
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NRHA applauds Senator Moran (KS) for introducing S. 778, the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services Act and strongly supports its passage. In 2010, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final regulation for the Outpatient Prospective Payment System. In the regulation, CMS required that all hospitals provide “direct physician supervision” of certain outpatient therapeutic services in order to receive Medicare reimbursement. The term “direct supervision” meant...
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