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
- Profiling Social Needs Activities in Publicly Traded Medicare Advantage Organizations - Publication in Population Health Management
- Financial Performance of Rural and Urban Hospitals in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
- Changes in Rural Pharmacy Presence 2023
- Provider-to-provider telemedicine for sepsis is used less frequently in communities with high social vulnerability - Publication in The Journal of Rural Health
- Medicare Advantage Plan Growth in Rural America: Availability of Supplemental Benefits
- Testimony to the US Senate Committee on Finance May 16, 2024 - Keith J. Mueller, PhD May 24
- Partnerships to Address Social Needs across Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Prospective Payment System Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals
- ACO Clinicians Have Higher Medicare Part B Medical Services Payments Than MIPS Clinicians Under the Quality Payment Program - Publication in The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing
- Nonmetropolitan Premiums, Issuer Participation, and Enrollment in Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2022
- Nursing home closures and access to post-acute care and long-term care services in rural areas - Publication in The Journal of Rural Health
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