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The Budget Control Act of 2011: Implications for Medicare
A new brief by the Kaiser Family Foundation, The Budget Control Act of 2011: Implications for Medicare, provides an...
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New Critical Access Hospital Data Initiative
Rural healthcare providers and advocates know that rural health is not ‘a smaller version’ of urban healthcare systems and...
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CMS Creates Medicare Bundled Payment Initiative for Interested Providers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has invited interested providers to “help test and develop” four different...
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Rural Council Report Focused on Economic Growth
The White House Rural Council released a new report entitled Jobs and Economic Security for Rural America. The report...
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Update on Congressional Deficit “Supercommittee”
The deal reached by Congress and the White House that raised the debt ceiling also called for the creation...
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Defining Rural: Issue for White House Rural Council?
U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Chair of the White House Rural Council Tom Vilsack said that he would ask the Council...