Welcome to the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis!
Our Mission
The mission of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis is to provide timely analysis to federal and state health policy makers, based on the best available research. The RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis is based at the University of Iowa, in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the College of Public Health.
Recent Publications
- Medicare Advantage Plan Growth in Rural America: Availability of Supplemental Benefits
- Partnerships to Address Social Needs across Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Prospective Payment System Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals
- Nonmetropolitan Premiums, Issuer Participation, and Enrollment in Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2022
- Medicare Advantage Enrollment Update 2023
- Distributional Analysis of Variation in Medicare Advantage Participation Within and Between Metropolitan, Micropolitan, and Noncore Counties
- Spatial Clustering of COVID-19 Mortality Rates across Counties and by Noncore, Micropolitan, and Metropolitan County Characteristics, December 2020–January 2021
- Differences in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Performance of Clinicians in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in 2018
- Policy implications of fixed-to-total-cost ratio variation across rural and urban hospitals - Publication in The Journal of Rural Health
- COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
Other Rural Health Research Resources
- RUPRI Health Panel Products
- Rural Health Research Recaps
- key findings from all Rural Health Research Centers, compiled by the Rural Health Research Gateway
Recent Presentations
- 4/9/2024 - Technology and Rural Health Care: Rural Administrators and Hospital Perspective
Dan M. Shane. Presentation to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services Meeting, Austin, TX. - 2/15/2024 - Medicare Advantage: It’s Here, Now What?
Keith J. Mueller. Presentation to the National Rural Health Association 2024 Policy Institute, Washington, DC.
Also of Interest
- NRHA Donor Profile: Meet Keith Mueller
- Health Insurance in Rural Communities - an RHIhub podcast with Abigail Barker and Timothy McBride.
- The Power of Collaboration to Advance Equity in Rural Cancer Control - Whitney Zahnd in the "Geographic Health Equity Alliance" for National Rural Health Day