CMS Seeks Participants for Rural Hospital Demonstration Project
August 30, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is currently accepting applications from hospitals to participate in the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program, which pays rural hospitals for inpatient hospital services using a cost-based methodology, according to a report by AHA News Now.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act extended the demonstration program for five years and will expand the program to 20 additional hospitals. Ten hospitals currently participate in the program and will be allowed to continue, according to the report.
To apply, hospitals must have fewer than 51 acute-care inpatient beds and be located within the 20 states with the lowest population density.
Read the AHA News Now report on the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Project.
Read more about rural hospitals:
- HHS Releases $32M to Improve Rural Health
- Three Major Challenges to Rural Hospitals Over the Next Decade
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