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Rural Hospital Programs: Utah Flex and SHIP is sponsored by Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Primary Care and Rural Health. This program provides funding opportunities for rural hospitals in Utah. While not exclusively mental health, it supports healthcare services in rural areas, which can include behavioral health components.
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Rural Hospital Programs ## Helping hospitals meet rural healthcare needs Utah Flex and SHIP provide funding to hospitals located in rural communities. These programs are funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The goal of the Utah Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program (Utah Flex) is to ensure that high quality healthcare is available in rural communities and meets their healthcare needs.
Utah Flex supports financial, operational, and quality initiatives, and indicator-driven health improvement projects. * supports hospitals in evaluating outcomes like patient satisfaction, safe antibiotic use, and emergency patient care, * provides targeted support for small rural hospitals’ needs, and * provides population health program improvement opportunities.
To be eligible for Utah Flex funding, a facility must be a Critical Access Hospital (CAH)that is participating in the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Program (MBQIP). A Critical Access Hospital is a federal designation that allows a hospital to be reimbursed on a reasonable cost basis for services provided to Medicare and Medicaid patients.
The**Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP)**encourages Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to report on a core set of measures and to engage in quality improvement initiatives. MBQIP is divided into four domains: * patient safety/inpatient, Rural Emergency Hospital (REH) Designation More than 135 rural hospitals across the country have closed since 2010.
The REH designation was created to address mounting concerns around closures of rural hospitals. Beginning in January 2023, eligible hospitals may seek an REH designation, which would result in an increase in Medicare reimbursement for relevant outpatient services and a monthly facility payment.
REH designation allows rural hospitals to offer services falling in between the requirements of a traditional acute care hospital and an ambulatory care facility. To be eligible for REH designation, hospitals must: 1. be a critical access hospital (CAH) or a rural prospective payment system (PPS) hospital, 2.
have 50 or fewer beds, 3. be located in a rural area (or have an active rural reclassification), and 4. provide emergency services and observation.
REH-eligible hospitals _may_ provide additional medical and health outpatient services while not exceeding an annual per patient average visit length of 24 hours. The Utah Small Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) provides funding to small rural and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to assist with activities related to purchasing.
Utah SHIP also helps with quality improvement activities to advance patient care information, and promote coordination and efficiency, such as purchasing equipment, and paying for training.
Types of purchasing assistance Purchasing assistance includes: * health information technology, * payment bundling, prospective payment Systems (PB/PPS), * value-based purchasing (VBP), and * accountable care organizations (ACOs) that allow hospitals to benefit from shared savings programs.
To be eligible, the hospital must: * be a U.S., non-federal hospital with 49 beds or less, according to its most recently filed Medicare Cost Report, and * p rovide short-term, general acute care. Allowable investments for a SHIP-eligible hospital https://www. ruralcenter.
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