Managing the cooperative agreement is one of the primary responsibilities of state Flex Programs and includes: budgeting, cooperative agreement application writing, working with partners, information management, and reporting.
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Flex Program Fundamentals: An Introduction to the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program is designed to be used by both new and current Flex Program staff: as an orientation manual and as a guide to helpful resources.
Guides to provide a brief overview and links to key documents to help rural health care professionals, practices and hospitals understand the billing code, consider the benefit to their patients and organization and begin billing for the code.
This document provides instructions for payment to RHCs billing under the all-inclusive rate and FQHCs billing under PPS for care coordination services provided to Medicare beneficiaries on or after January 1, 2018.
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Community Health Workers Toolkit
This toolkit can assist organizations and communities in evaluating opportunities for developing a CHW program, including resources and best practices.
Learn how chronic care management (CCM) can benefit patients and practice in hospitals, CAHs, RHCs and FQHCs. Access the CCM Fact Sheet from CMS.
Developed specifically for rural organizations, this assessment is designed to provide a preliminary review of critical factors for organizations looking to develop, expand or enhance care coordination efforts.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a toolkit highlighting innovative strategies that Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) use to coordinate and manage care for their diverse beneficiary populations.
The purpose of this guide is to provide information about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and clarity around best practices of care management for those with COPD in rural communities.
Learn transition strategies from the 2017 Rural Hospital Value-based Strategic Summit with strategy map and balanced scorecard templates.
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Road to Value: Financial Strategy to Survive the Transition to New Payment and Care Delivery Models
Learn efficiency and effectiveness of revenue and expense management, service line analysis and development, APMs and relationships with other health care providers in the provision of health care services.
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EMS Leadership
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency Leadership.
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EMS Strategic Planning
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency Strategic Planning.
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency Patients, Partners, and the Community.
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency Data, Collection, Management, and Analysis.
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EMS Operations and Processes
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency EMS Operations and Processes.
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EMS Workforce
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency Workforce.
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EMS Outcomes and Impact
View resources related to the Rural Community Ambulance Agency Transformation Readiness core competency EMS Outcomes and Impact.
Customer engagement is an important outcome of an overall learning and performance excellence strategy. Use these resources to learn more about identifying population health partners.
Planning ought to be purposeful, active, and relevant, with input from key stakeholders such as internal staff, rural provider leaders and staff, and the state rural health and clinic organizations.