Research Alert: April 18, 2018

Rural Market Share and Characteristics of PAC Services

This research alert contains two policy briefs.

The first brief, Market Characteristics Associated with Rural Hospitals' Provision of Post-Acute Care, uses data from Medicare cost reports, the Provider of Services File, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide a window into current hospital-based post-acute care offerings by summarizing both hospital- and market-level factors that are associated with rural hospitals that provided post-acute care between 2012 and 2015.

The second brief, Rural and Urban Provider Market Share of Inpatient Post-Acute Care Services Provided to Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, characterizes rural providers' market share of inpatient post-acute care services provided to rural Medicare beneficiaries.

Additional Resources of Interest:

• Financial Importance of Medicare Post-Acute and Hospice Care to Rural Hospitals
• More information about the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
• More information from the Rural Health Information Hub's topic guides: Hospitals, Rural Health Policy