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Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program is a federal funding program that aims at working with rural hospitals to stabilize and sustain their local health care infrastructure.
The goal of the FLEX grant is to improve the quality of care and financial and operational performance, as well as manage population health needs.
The Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP) is the quality portion of the grant that provides an opportunity for individual critical access hospitals to look at their own data, measure their outcomes against each other and partner with other hospitals in the state around quality improvement initiatives to improve outcomes and provide the highest quality care to every patient.
Flex Monitoring Team
- Addressing Opioid Use in Rural Communities: Examples from Critical Access Hospitals
- Provision of Mental Health Services by Critical Access Hospital-Based Rural Health Clinics
- Engaging Critical Access Hospitals in Addressing Rural Substance Use
National Rural Health Resource Center
- Supporting CAHs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Survey of State Flex Coordinators
- Post-Acute Care Virtual Summit Report
- Sustainable Community Care Coordination: Guide | Workbook
- Population Health Strategic Framework
- Population Identification Guide
- Using Data Analytics to Manage Population Health Services
National Rural Health Association
Health Research and Educational Trust
Flex Monitoring Team
National Rural Health Resource Center
- Flex MBQIP Fall 2020 Regional Meeting-Spotlight Hospital: Excelsior Springs Hospital (Nov. 12, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Flex MBQIP Fall 2020 Regional Meeting-Spotlight Hospitals: Cox Barton County Hospital and Cox Monett Hospital (Nov. 3, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Emergency Department Transfer Communication Updates (January 2020) — PowerPoint
- FLEX – MBQIP and Updates (June 2019) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Population Health Assessment Results Review (Dec. 1, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Behavioral Health: Addressing Rural Challenges And Opportunities Through An Evidence-Based Lens (Nov. 10, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- The Role of Population Health in Changing Times (Aug. 25, 2020) — PowerPoint
- Integrating Population Health in Health Care (February 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Federal Relief Funding and Reporting Implications (Jan. 5, 2021) — PowerPoint | Recording
- CMS 2021 Price Transparency Requirements – Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (Nov. 17, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Board Governance (Aug. 22, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Strategies for CFO Communication to the Board (Aug. 22, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Revenue Integrity and Denials Prevention (Aug. 6, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Using KPIs in Revenue Cycle Management (Aug. 6, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- CMS New Price Transparency Requirements for Hospitals (July 30, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Coding and Billing Basics (July 16, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- RHC Operations and Strategy (July 16, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- CAH Reimbursement Strategies and Service Line Considerations (June 25, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Service Line Profitability for CAHs (June 25, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Understanding CAH Reimbursement Drivers (June 25, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Cost Reimbursement Impacts to Volume and Expense Changes (June 3, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Physician Compensation and Productivity (June 3, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Key Financial Metrics and Impacts on Operations (May 21, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- Understanding Market Share and Capture Rates (May 21, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- 340B Strategies (May 21, 2020) — PowerPoint | Recording
- New CMS Update Impacting Critical Access Hospitals (February 2020) — PowerPoint
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $510,424 with zero percentage financed with non-governmental sources through a contract between the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (DHSS ORHPC). The contents are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, HRSA, HHS, the U.S. Government, MHA or DHSS ORHPC.
Funding for this program was made possible by the Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) funding opportunity HRSA-19-024.
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MBQIP Monthly
MBQIP Monthly is a publication for FLEX coordinators to share with their critical access hospitals.