The RUPRI Center is prepared to provide analysis of elements and/or effects of proposed or enacted health reform legislation and/or regulations to implement changes mandated by legislation.

Our work will be a combination of analysis based on experiences with similar changes (e.g., changes in insurance benefits and costs as assessed by the commercial market), ongoing analysis of the rural market in Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D, analysis of the rural market in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, mapping alternative rural market areas, estimates of changes in provider income (e.g., physician income as a function of new payment rules in resource-based relative value scale, bonus payments, payment for patient-centered medical home), and case studies of particular effects in specific rural counties.

Publications

• A Case Study of Developments in Rural Health in Difficult Economic Times: Leake County, Mississippi
  RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Date: 08/2009
  The U.S. healthcare crisis is especially strong in rural communities. The experience of Leake County, a rural Mississippi county, embodies these problems.
• A Case Study of Developments in Rural Health in Difficult Economic Times: Nemaha County, Nebraska
  RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Date: 08/2009
  The U.S. healthcare crisis is especially strong in rural communities. The experience of Nemaha County, a small county located in southeastern Nebraska, illustrates the reach of these problems into counties that are somewhat stable during times of economic turbulence.
• A Case Study of Developments in Rural Health in Difficult Economic Times: Walthall County, Mississippi
  RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Date: 08/2009
  The U.S. healthcare crisis is especially strong in rural communities. The experience of Walthall County, a small county located in southwestern Mississippi, exemplifies these problems.