Benefits and operational concerns of rural health clinics

In 1977, Congress enacted the Rural Health Clinic Act in an effort to make healthcare more accessible in underserved rural areas. Changes in the regulations affecting these clinics, such as offering incentives to start and staff the facilities, have been enacted in a series of Omnibus Budget Reconci...

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Published in:Healthcare financial management 1994-11, Vol.48 (11), p.40-46
Main Authors: Fogel, L A, MacQuarrie, C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounting
Advantages
Ambulatory care
Ambulatory care facilities
Clinics
Community
Community Health Centers - economics
Community Health Centers - legislation & jurisprudence
Competition
Cost shifting
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Evaluation
Federal regulation
Health administration
Health care delivery
Hospitals
Hospitals, Rural
Humans
Implementations
Management
Medicaid
Medicare
Medicare Part B - legislation & jurisprudence
Nursing administration
Patients
Physician Incentive Plans - economics
Physician Incentive Plans - legislation & jurisprudence
Physicians
Primary care
Recruitment
Reimbursement
Reimbursement, Incentive
Rural areas
Rural Health
Rural health care
Rural health services
Rural hospitals
Services
Shortages
Subsidies
Tax basis
United States
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Summary:In 1977, Congress enacted the Rural Health Clinic Act in an effort to make healthcare more accessible in underserved rural areas. Changes in the regulations affecting these clinics, such as offering incentives to start and staff the facilities, have been enacted in a series of Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts beginning in 1987. As a result, the last few years have seen the number of clinics double. In this article, authors Lawrence A. Fogel and Cindy MacQuarrie examine the advantages offered by rural health clinics and review the operational issues involved in setting up and running them.
ISSN:0735-0732