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Rural Health
Research Gateway

2025 Research Publications

Browse the full list of research publications from the Rural Health Research Centers.

Products – Freely accessible products include policy briefs, fact sheets, full reports, chartbooks, and interactive data websites.

Journal Articles – Articles in peer-reviewed journals may require a subscription or affiliation with a subscribing library. For these publications, Gateway lists the article citation, a brief summary, a link to additional information and access to the full-text of the article, if available.

  • Evaluating Medicare Advantage Benchmark Setting Methodology on Rural Counties
    Policy Brief
    RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
    Date: 01/2025
    This brief explores how the process for setting benchmark payments for Medicare Advantage plans may create different incentives across rural and urban counties.
  • Medicare Advantage Enrollment Update 2024
    Policy Brief
    RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis, Rapid Response to Requests for Rural Data Analysis
    Date: 01/2025
    This policy brief continues RUPRI Center's annual update of Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment including the changes in enrollment in types of MA plans, and health policy changes that may have had an impact.