When 'Critical Access Hospitals' Aren't So Critical : Shots - Health News Efforts to cut federal spending are targeting a program that gives higher Medicare reimbursements to small hospitals in ...

A Critical Access Hospital must meet a long list of criteria to be granted the status and receive federal funding. There are different types of Critical Access Hospitals, and each has their own unique ...

Becker’s Hospital Review is pleased to present the 2016 edition of the “Critical Access Hospitals to Know” list, highlighting 50 of the nation’s 1,332 certified critical access hospitals.

Through critical access hospital designation, hospitals are reimbursed at 101% of allowable costs by Medicare. MaineCare reimburses Critical Access Hospitals 117% of costs solely for the purpose ...

The Glenn Medical Center in the City of Willows has been aiding its residents dating back to 1950.Yet due to a dispute over ...

Most critical-access hospitals that own and operate long-term care facilities do so because no other entity is willing to in their community, according to David Snow, an attorney at Hall, Render ...

These tiny healthcare outposts provide "critical access" to people who live in remote areas. That was the intent of the legislation that created CAHs in 1997 at a time when rural hospitals were ...

The House passed a $1.5 trillion government funding bill, which extends several telehealth policies for another five months, but critical-access hospitals say they were left out.

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Hood Memorial Hospital, in Amite, La., hasn't been full in at least two decades. Some people say that makes it's a perfect target for efforts to reduce federal spending. On an average day, fewer ...

Newman Regional Health is a 25-bed critical access hospital with more than 500 employees, 225 volunteers and 130 physicians — 28 of which are on the hospital’s active medical staff.

Congress created critical access hospitals in 1997 as a strategy to protect small, financially vulnerable hospitals. The designation is given by the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.