Presentations include:

How to Develop a Rural Health Clinic, Impact of Affordable Care Act on RHCs, National Legislative Update for RHCs, Reaching Compliance and Regulatory Standards, Alabama and Georgia Medicaid Update, Coding and Billing, RAC Audits, Cost Reporting, Telehealth Integration with RHCs, What Surveyors are Looking For  

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2013 ICD-10 Workshop

 Association of Rural Health Professional Coders

2013 Medical Coding Certification Classes  

Sequestration will push 63 rural hospitals from profitable to unprofitable operating margins while the overall average rural hospital operating margin is already -5.68 (unfortunately, that's a minus). It is estimated that due to sequestration more than 12,000 rural health jobs will be lost nationwide. (

See this report on the impact of Medicare sequestion on rural communities.)

As National Rural Health Association past-president Tim Size, of the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, points out in his blog, in rural, we've been here before. Rural providers have survived decades of change and, just like spring follows winter, we will again. 

The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) is pleased to announce the release of the FY 2013 Rural Health Information Technology (HIT) Workforce Program (Announcement number: HRSA-13-251).  The purpose of this one-time funding opportunity is to support formal rural health networks that focus on activities relating to the recruitment, education, training, and retention of HIT specialists.  

Applicants may propose funding for up to 3-years starting from September 1, 2013 to August 31, 2016.  Applicants may apply for a ceiling amount of up to $300,000 per year.  Further information regarding the funding amounts is in the announcement.  ORHP expects to fund between 10-15 grantees.

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