Day: August 15, 2013
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Aug. 28 webinar will help journalists understand health reform
Jennifer Tolbert After The Rural Blog published an item (see below) yesterday that said 80 percent of people who could benefit from insurance exchanges being established under the Patient Protection and...
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Most who would benefit from insurance exchanges under health reform knew nothing about them last fall
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect millions of Americans, especially those in rural areas. But many are not prepared for the coming changes, according to a survey...
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Federal report says many hospitals wouldn’t keep critical-access designation if distance rules were strictly enforced
More than two dozen Kentucky communities still have hospitals because of the critical-access hospital program, in which small, isolated hospitals get higher Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements in return for limiting...