Just Released! Results from 2022 Pennsylvania Dental Assistant Survey
PCOH recently completed the “2022 PA Dental Assistant Survey” and created a resource to share the results. Dental assistants provide a key role in…
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The Managed Care Program Annual Report (MCPAR) Has Been Released
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations at 42 CFR § 438.66(e) require states to submit a Managed Care Program Annual Report (MCP…
Senator Fetterman Speaks Out on His Battle with Depression
U.S. Sen. John Fetterman graced the cover of the July 28, 2023, edition of Time magazine. In the accompanying cover story, How John Fetterman Came Ou…
New Report Released on What Small Businesses in the Pennsylvania Region Said About Their Challenges
As more pandemic assistance programs were phased out in 2022, small businesses in our region still needed funding. And many were coping with supply ch…
New Report Released on Incentivizing Oral Health Care Providers to Treat Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
A new report by the National Council on Disability, “Incentivizing Oral Healthcare Providers to Treat Patients with Intellectual and Developmental D…
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Presents on Rural Maternal Health
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) presents state-level strategies to address the loss of obstetric services and imp…
Read About the Differences in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Performance of Clinicians in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in 2018
The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is a pay-for-performance system for clinicians under the Medicare Quality Payment Program designed …
Spatial Clustering of COVID-19 Mortality Rates Across Counties and by Noncore, Micropolitan, and Metropolitan County Characteristics, December 2020–January 2021.
Among the key findings from the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis: a higher percentage of clusters of high mortality rates were in nonc…
GAO Calls for Health Information Technology Advisory Committee Advisory Nominations
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) expects to appoint two or three new members for its Health Information Technology Advisory Committee. The…
The Impact of COVID-19 Funding on Profitability of Critical Access Hospitals
Using data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) researchers report on the challenges faced by CMS-designated Critical Access Hospit…