Community & Population Health

Rural Health Path to Value
Rural Health Innovations offers services to help you climb toward population health and improve the health status of your community.

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA)
Work with us to set a course toward value-based payment and population health. A thorough assessment of your community's needs is the crucial first step.

Additional Consulting Services

Network and Partnership Development
More is possible when working together. Let us help you build bridges that lead to healthier communities.

Strategic Planning, Leadership, and Workforce
The Center offers a variety of services to help with Strategic Planning, Leadership, Workforce, and Performance Improvement.

Technical Assistance & Services Center (TASC)
TASC provides performance improvement resources to CAHs and state Flex Programs on quality, finance, operations, systems of care and population health.

Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Program (SHIP)
SHIP provides funding to approximately 1,600 participating hospitals in 46 participating SORHs to help small rural hospitals participate in value-based payment and care delivery models.

Delta Region Community Health Systems Development (DRCHSD) Program
The DRCHSD Program works with rural Delta communities to address health care needs and strengthen the local health care system through comprehensive technical assistance.

Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project (RHPTP)
RHPTP guides small rural hospitals and rural health clinics to prepare for participation in alternative payment and care delivery models.

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Network Technical Assistance (TA)
RHI provides technical assistance (TA) to over 60 networks in the Development and Allied Health rural health network grant programs.

Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project
The Small Rural Hospital Transition (SRHT) Project supports small rural hospitals nationally by providing on-site technical assistance to assist bridging the gaps between the current health care system and the newly emerging health care delivery and payment system.

Population Health Projects

Events
Find information about upcoming webinars, workshops and more hosted by The Center or Rural Health Innovations.

Allied Health Webinars
Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Network Allied Health Training grantees.

Health Education and Learning Program (HELP) Webinars
Eligible rural hospital leaders and staff can attend a HELP webinar to learn about current financial, operational and quality performance needs that impact their transition to the new health care environment.

Network Development Webinars
Find recordings and resources from recent technical assistance webinars for Rural Health Network Development grantees.

Performance Management Group (PMG) Calls
Learn from the experience of leading hospital administrators and nationally recognized field experts. PMG calls allow peer-to-peer education focused on preparing rural hospitals for new payment and care delivery models.

2021 CMS Coding Updates

Event Details

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

11:00am to 12:00pm CST

Host:

National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center),

BKD LLP

DRCHSD Revenue Cycle Improvement Session 1 of 4: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 2021 Coding Updates

The purpose of the webinar is to provide updates to the 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule regarding telehealth, evaluation & management (E/M) documentation and code changes, fee-for-service reimbursement impact, and rural health clinic (RHC) service expansion.

Speaker: Marla Dumm, CPC, CCS-P, CRC, Managing Consultant, BKD

Audience: Hospital and RHC management, coding staff, billing staff, professional staff

DRHCSD Program participating hospitals and clinics will be sent the webinar connection information in advance. The recording and slides will be available online following the webinar. For any questions, please reach out to Shannon Norman.

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Webinar

Front-end Revenue Cycle Improvement: Patient Registration

January 21, 2021

The last session of the Revenue Cycle Improvement webinar series, Front-end Revenue Cycle Improvement: Patient Registration, will review best practice patient registration and pre-arrival strategies, and discuss KPIs used to measure and benchmark registration performance.