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• 2009
  • Profile of Sole Community Pharmacists’ Prescription Sales and Overall Financial Position. August 2009
     
  • Workforce Issues Among Sole Community Pharmacies. July 2009
     
  • Impact of the Recession on Rural America: Rising Unemployment Leading to More Uninsured in 2009. Brief No. 2009-6
     
  • A Rural-Urban Comparison of a Building Blocks Approach to Covering the Uninsured. Brief No. 2009-5. Brief No. 2009-5
     
  • Loss of Community Pharmacies Since 2006: State Experiences. Brief No. 2009-3
     
  • The Key Role of Sole Community Pharmacists in Their Local Healthcare Delivery Systems. March 2009
     
  • Rural Enrollment in Medicare Part D is Growing Slowly. Brief No. 2009-2
     
  • Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage: Growth Slows in 2008. Brief No. 2009-1
  • Additional Tables

• 2008

  • Eligible But Not Enrolled? Potential for Targeting Over a Half-Million Rural Medicare Beneficiaries for Enrollment in the Low-Income Subsidy Prescription Drug Program. Brief No. 2008-5

  • State Tables
     
  • Electronic Health Records Adoption: Rural Providers' Decision-Making Process. Brief No. 2008-4
     
  • Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Continues to Grow Rapidly in 2008, Led by Private Fee-for-Service Plans. Brief No. 2008-3
     
  • Independently Owned Pharmacy Closures in Rural America. Brief No. 2008-2
  • State Table
     
  • Critical Access Hospitals' Experiences with Medicare Advantage Plans. March, 2008.

• 2007
  • One Year In: Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies and Medicare Part D. October, 2007.  
     
  • Update on Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage: Growth Continues. PB2007-7.
    • Detailed data about Medicare Advantage enrollment and plans. PB2007-7 Tables.
    • State Updates on Medicare Advantage Enrollment. November 2007
       
  • Reliance on Independently Owned Pharmacies in Rural America. PB2007-6.
    • State maps showing the locations of communities with only one pharmacy, independently owned.
       
  • Regional Variation in Rural Hospital Charges Due to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. PB2007-5.
     
  • National Rural Hospital Charges Due to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. PB2007-4.
     
  • Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Is Growing Rapidly in 2007, Especially in Private Fee-for-Service Plans.  PB2007-3.
     
  • Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Is Concentrated in Private Fee-for- Service Plans PB2007-2.
     
  • Enrollment in Medicare Part D for Rural Beneficiaries is Encouraging. PB2007-1

• 2006

  • Medicare Part D: Early Findings on Enrollment and Choices for Rural Beneficiaries? PB2006-8
     

  • Medicare Physician Payment: Impacts of Changes on Rural Physicians.  PB2006-2
     

  • Chronic Disease Management Systems (Registries) in Rural Health Care.  PB2006-1

• 2005

  • Why are Health Care Expenditures Increasing and Is There A Rural Differential? PB2005-7  
     

  • The Impact of Welfare Reform on Health Insurance Coverage in Rural Areas. PB2005-6 
     

  • Contracting with Medicare Advantage Plans: A Brief for Critical Access Hospital Administrators. PB2005-4
     

  • Assessing the Financial Effect of Medicare Payment on Rural Hospitals:  Does the Source of Data Change the Results? PB2005-3
     

  • Preparing for Medicare Part D:  An Opportunity for State Offices of Rural Health and State Rural Health Associations. PB2005-2 

• 2004

  • Rural Physicians' Acceptance of New Medicare Patients. PB2004-5
     

  • An Analysis of the Agreement Between Financial Data from the Medicare Cost Report and the Audited Hospital Financial Statement. PB2004-4 

• 2003

  • Medicare Physician Payment: Practice Expense. PB2003-9
     

  • Enrollment in FEHBP Plans in Rural America: What are the Implications for Medicare Reform? PB2003-8

    • Enrollment in FEHBP Plans in Rural Areas: State-by-State FEHBP Enrollment Analysis and State-by-State FEHBP Enrollment Analysis, by County and Plan
       

  • Rural Hospital HIPAA Readiness and Resource Needs. PB2003-6  
     

  • An Analysis of Availability of Medicare+Choice, Commercial HMO, and FEHBP Plans in Rural Areas:  Implications for Medicare Reform. PB2003-5
     

  • Medicare Physician Payment. PB2003-2

• 2002

  • Health Services at Risk in "Vulnerable" Rural Places. PB2002-5
     

  • An Update on Rural Medicare+Choice: Rural Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled in Medicare+Choice Plans through September 2001. PB2002-4
     

  • Inequitable Access:  Medicare+Choice Program Fails to Serve Rural America.  PB2002-2
     

  • Comments on Regulatory and Contractor Reform Legislation.  PB2002-1

• 2001

  • Can Payment Policies Attract M+C Plans to Rural Areas? PB2001-8
     

  • Rural Implications of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000. PB2001-4 

• 2000

  • Health Insurance in Rural America. PB2000-11 

• 2009
  • The Cost of Inaction to Rural Communities: The Urgent Need for Health Care Reform. August 2009
    Profiles of three rural counties:

    Leake County, Mississippi. Brief No. 2009-9
    Walthall County, Mississippi. Brief No. 2009-10
    Nemaha County, Nebraska. Brief No. 2009-11

• 2008
  • Prevalence of Evidence-Based Safe Medication Practices in Small Rural Hospitals. Brief No. 2008-1.

• The Experience of Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies with Medicare Part D: Reports from the Field.  P2006-3.  December, 2006
   
• Elements of Successful Rural Diabetes Management Programs.  P2006-2.  July, 2006
   

• Definition of Rural in the Context of MMA Access Standards for Prescription Drug Plans. A Joint Publication of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis (Policy Paper P2004-7) and the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Working Paper No. 79).  P2004-7.  September, 2004
   

• A Rural Perspective Regarding Regulations Implementing Titles I and II of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). From the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.  P2004-6.  August, 2004
   

• Information Technology and Rural Health Networks:  An Overview of Network Practices.  p2004-3.  April, 2004. 
   

• The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-173). A Summary of Provisions Important to Rural Health Care Delivery. Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D.  P2004-1.  January, 2004.  Updated 1/13/04
   

• Care Across the Continuum:  Access to Health Care Services in Rural Areas.  WP2003-10.  December, 2003
   

• Availability and Use of Health Plan Choices in Rural America: Medicare+Choice, Commercial HMO, and Federal Employees Health Benefit Program Plans.  P2003-7.  October, 2003

  • Enrollment in FEHBP Plans in Rural Areas: State-by-State FEHBP Enrollment Analysis and State-by-State FEHBP Enrollment Analysis, by County and Plan
     

• The Immediate and Future Role of the J-1 Visa Waiver Program for Physicians: The Consequences of Change for Rural Health Care Service Delivery.  P2002-3.  April, 2002

• Medicare Physician Payment Policy and the Rural Perspective. Final Report.  November 2008
   
• One Year In: Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies and Medicare Part D.  P2007-1. September 2007.