In September 2023, Rural Health Innovations, the for-profit consulting arm of the National Rural Health Resource Center, was contracted by the Episcopal Health Foundation to conduct a review and assessment of the Texas Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model design and rollout. The assessment included an examination of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation initiatives, an analysis of the Texas CHART Model design and related communications with hospitals and partners, an analysis of state hospital finances, and interviews with more than a dozen key informants.
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RHPTP HELP Webinars
Developing collaborative and innovative ways of managing the health of communities is an important component in transitioning to value-based care.
The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) has launched the 2025 update to its Population Health Toolkit, which is designed to assist State Offices of Rural Health, state Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Programs and individual health care organizations as they seek to better understand, manage and improve population health in their communities and states.
Review the process the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program uses to analyze applications and select hospitals to participate.
The Cancer Screening and Prevention Toolkit features messaging that emphasizes cancer prevention and awareness, highlighting the powerful motivation of living not just for oneself, but for others.
Discusses population health, its definition, fit with the Triple Aim, mechanisms to improve it and model programs.
This presentation provides tips using examples from the Flex Program on working with subcontractors, stakeholders and partners in ways to demonstrate outcomes. The content includes a template budget tracking and program activity sheets as well as an example contract for services with a subcontractor.
A step-by-step guide for state a Flex Program to prepare for and conduct a CAH site visit.
These policy models are adapted from the Markle Connecting for Health Common Framework for Private and Secure Health Information Exchange. This framework provides several useful tools for HIE; P2 contains much of the necessary policy and procedure language needed for an HIE.
This guide provides rural hospitals with financial strategies to survive the transition from a volume-based reimbursement methodology to a system based on value.
This presentation describes rural health networks, including why networks form, the role of networks in the transition to value, and the value of networks to Flex Programs.
Use this series of leadership tools to enable rural health care leadership teams to examine and clarify roles for achieving performance excellence during the transition to value-based health care. They are geared specifically toward administrative teams, board members and physician leaders.
Updated April 2022, this guide provides CAH and RHC executive and management teams with concepts and guidance in developing a sliding fee scale discount program. Gain an understanding of how they relate to Internal Revenue Code Section 501(r) compliance and participation in the National Health Service Corps
Findings from the 2016 Summit has been developed to assist rural hospital leaders in engaging rural health providers in the transition to value-based purchasing and population health.
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PIMS Data Collection Tool
An Excel-based data collection tool designed to collect participation and improvement data over one grant year to enable accurate reporting of PIMS measures at the end of the grant budget year.
Learn about one hospital’s experience, successes and next steps in preparing for population health, and discover resources that assist providers in transitioning to value-based system.