Year(s) Funded: 2015-2016
Topic(s): Health Services, Healthcare Access, Private Health Insurance
Project Lead: Ira Moscovice
The issue of narrow provider networks has become more serious as a result of the implementation of the ACA and the uncomfortable balance that needs to be made between reducing healthcare expenditures and providing local access to care. This study aims to develop norms/standards for provider network adequacy for rural populations (which may vary across different rural environments) that will be useful to consumers, providers, and policymakers in the decisions they face with respect to health plan choices, participation, and policies.
Related Publications
- Regulating Network Adequacy for Rural Populations: Perspectives of Five States, August 15th, 2017
- Relationship between Hospital Policies for Labor Induction and Cesarean Delivery and Perinatal Care Quality among Rural U.S. Hospitals, November 6th, 2016
- Quality Reporting for CAHs and Rural PPS Hospitals: The Potential Impact of Composite Measures, July 1st, 2012
- The Use of Hospitalists in Small Rural Hospitals, April 3rd, 2012