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Issues in Rural Health: Access, Hospitals, and Reform

This overview discusses articles published in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review, entitled "Access to Health Care Services in Rural Areas: Delivery and Financing Issues." These articles focus on the following topics: rural hospitals (including closures, the impact of Federal grants, network development, and costs), managed care in rural areas, telemedicine, and the delivery of menta...

Rural-urban differences in health risks, resource use and expenditures within three state medicaid programs: implications for medicaid managed care.

This study uses Medicaid claims data for income-eligible enrollees in California, Georgia and Mississippi to compare expenditures, resource usage and health risks between residents of rural and urban areas of the states. Resource use is measured using the Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS) system for professional services, hospital days and outpatient facility visits; it also is valued...

Using a Model to Evaluate the Impact of Managed Care on Medicaid-Eligible Moms and Their Children in a Rural Population

This paper lays out the advantages of using a model for developing research questions and methodologies aimed at evaluating how managed care arrangements for rural Medicaid moms and their children might affect their access to health care and their related health status. The PRECEDE (predisposing, reinforcing, and enabling causes in educational diagnosis and evaluation) health-education program ...

UpDate Medicaid Managed Care In Rural Areas : A Ten - State Follow - Up Study

Integrating Behavioral Health into Medicaid Managed Care: Design and Implementation Lessons from State Innovators

Medicaid enrollees with behavioral health needs have a high prevalence of chronic conditions and are often frequent users of physical and behavioral health services. This brief, made possible by Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit, provides insights from Medicaid officials and health plan representatives in five states — Arizona, Florida, Kansas, New York and Texas — that are pursuing innovativ...