Rural Health Clinics: Medicare & Medicaid Profile (Year 2)

Year 2 of a project developing a longitudinal data collection/tracking mechanism of key RHC Medicare claims data and cost report elements. RHC Medicaid data for a sample of states also will be requested and analyzed to determine utilization patterns and identification of potential quality metrics.

Publications

• Identifying Rural Health Clinics in Medicaid Data
  Policy Brief
  North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
  Date: 05/2016
  Identifying Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) in Medicaid claims across states is challenging, but this brief recommends methods for identifying the majority of these claims in four states.