4210.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM |
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| Critical Access Hospitals - Are They Working? |
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| Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) is a new HCFA designation appropriated to eligible rural hospitals. Once a rural hospital has been designated with CAH status, it will receive cost-based reimbursement for its Medicare patients from HCFA. The new designation is made possible through the Rural Hospital Flexibility Program which was authorized by Congress as a way to save rural hospitals from closing.
This session will examine the challenges and successes rural hospitals have experienced in seeking Critical Access Hospital designation |
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| Facilitator(s): | Christopher Allan Knowles, MPA |
| Panelist(s): | Alison Hughes, MPA
Andrew Nichols, MD, MPH |
| Organizer(s): | Christopher Allan Knowles, MPA |
| Sponsor: | Medical Care |