Care management

Completed Projects

Alphabetical list. You can also view by project completion date.

• Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Rural Long-Term Services and Supports under the Affordable Care Act
  This project will examine strategies, models, and policy options for improving access to, and quality of, rural long-term services and supports. Through focused policy analyses, we will highlight the rural options, opportunities, and barriers of implementing the coordinated care, health home, and long-term services and supports provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
  Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Aging, Care management, Long-term care
  
• Diabetes Management in Urban and Rural Areas of the U.S.
  This project used the IBM MarketScan database to examine differences in type 2 diabetes prevalence and monitoring for a commercially insured sample. It also employed definitions from the Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set guidelines for comprehensive diabetes care to determine if rural residents are more or less likely to meet recommended standards for type 2 diabetes monitoring and control.
  Research center: Rural and Underserved Health Research Center
  Topics: Care management, Chronic diseases and conditions, Diabetes, Health disparities and health equity, Health promotion and disease prevention, Health services, Healthcare access, Private health insurance, Quality
  
• Engagement of Rural Providers in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
  The RUPRI Center's work assessing the development of ACOs in rural places including updating our data base showing the location of Medicare ACOs and using the data to create maps for each Census Region showing the counties in which Medicare ACOs have assigned beneficiaries.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Care management, Health services
  
• Evaluating the Rural HIV/AIDS Planning Grant Program
  The Rural HIV/AIDS Planning Grant program is administered by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to plan and develop healthcare networks designed to address HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in states disproportionately impacted by the virus. This project identified factors that facilitate and impede success of such planning efforts.
  Research center: University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Care management, Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities and health equity, Healthcare access, Minority health, Networking and collaboration
  
• Examining Rural-Urban Differences in Availability of Hospital Cardiac Testing Services Between 2010-2020
  This project will examine whether the availability of hospital-based cardiac testing services has changed over the past ten years in rural and urban counties and identify the characteristics of counties where service availability has changed.
  Research center: Rural and Minority Health Research Center
  Topics: Care management, Chronic diseases and conditions, Health disparities and health equity, Health services, Hospitals and clinics, Public health
  
• How Will Rural Hospitals Meet Requirements for Patient Privacy?
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Care management, Hospitals and clinics, Legislation and regulation
  
• Medicaid Managed Care in Rural Areas: Innovative Case Management Strategies
  Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
  Topics: Care management, Medicaid and CHIP
  
• Rural Quality Improvement Focus on Diabetes
  This project focused specifically on diabetes care management and quality improvement programming in rural areas as a way to understand the adaptability and policy implications of using chronic care coordination and other models in a rural environment.
  Research center: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
  Topics: Care management, Chronic diseases and conditions, Diabetes, Quality
  
• Transformation of Rural Health Clinics: Are They Ready to Serve as Patient-Centered Medical Homes?
  Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) face pressure to transform their practices by becoming patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). This study will document the readiness of RHCs to serve as PCMHs and provide information to assist policymakers in developing technical assistance and other policy resources to support RHCs in doing so.
  Research center: Maine Rural Health Research Center
  Topics: Care management, Rural Health Clinics (RHCs)