“The Trump Administration today announced it is further transforming the nation’s rural health care system by unleashing innovation through new funding opportunities that will increase access and improve quality. The Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model delivers on President Trump’s Executive Order from last week on Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access as well as the President’s Medicare …
Hospital Statement of Finances of Closure – critical reading for C-suite &Hospital Board
Urgent!!(Read Notes) Please read this entire email for details. There is never a good time to discuss closure. However, The time for this planning is now and more important than ever. While one would say that their rural hospital is not at closure, be assured that the planning for any rural hospital in any day warrants these considerations. Cash shortage will …
Georgia’s surprise billing measure signed into law
Be Aware! – Important article to read! Georgia’s surprise billing measure signed into law: 3 things to know Morgan Haefner – Saturday, July 18th, 2020 Click here to view full email from Jimmy Lewis.
CMS to resume healthcare provider audits Aug. 3
Be aware! CMS to resume healthcare provider audits Aug. 3 TARA BANNOW | MODERN HEALTHCARE “CMS will resume auditing healthcare providers’ Medicare claims in two weeks, months after suspending such work due to COVID-19.” Click here to view full email from Jimmy Lewis.
What part must the rural hospital play in the Coronavirus spread and transmission
Given: There is a pandemic among us that may last years Reportedly 90% of the current population is still susceptible to catch the virus, that is exposed and tested Coronavirus devastation may only be just beginning where devastation can be defined as economic, health, spiritual and societal ruin The rural hospital is being the end all caretaker of the community’s …
Grass Roots needed to pursue Critical Access Designation for PPS Hospitals
Given: Critical Access Hospitals, as a designation, began in 1997 Congress created the Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation through the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-33) in response to a string of rural hospital closures during the 1980s and early 1990s. Georgia had more than thirty rural hospitals to apply at that time; they were granted the designation …
HHS announces plan for $4 billion in COVID-19 payments
By Sandhya Raman, CQ Click here to view full email from Jimmy Lewis.
What’s trending – hot issues that HomeTown is hearing around the state
HomeTown has been spending a lot of its time working virtually all over the southeast. In so doing we are seeing and hearing a lost of critical issues . HomeTown is a committed to working to help you solve the problems and issues of your rural hospitals The top six issues and trends that we are hearing this week include …
So what to expect in a rural community and hospital when coronavirus (COVID-19) hits – coronavirus by the numbers – what to begin planning for; this is a critical article to read!!!
Refresher from a 3-13-2020 article – Urgent to read and prepare for – Read this excellent article on pandemics- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 This Coronavirus forecast was calculated for Georgia on March 13, 2020. Georgia is now 3.5 months into the Pandemic. Rural Georgia is now in the midst of a major spike. A lost of the spike through rural Georgia had been driven …
Critical Access Hospital closures since 2005
State-by-state breakdown of 36 critical access hospital closures by Alya Ellison Click here to view full email from Jimmy Lewis.