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 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
- Financial Risk Acceptance among Rural Health Care Providers Participating in the Quality Payment Program
- Changes in Service Offerings Post-System Affiliation in Rural Hospitals
- COVID-19 Mortality Rates across Noncore, Micropolitan, and Metropolitan Counties by Community Characteristics, December 2020-January 2021
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
- 10/18/2023 - Rural Health Policy for the Next Decade: Changes are Upon Us
Keith J. Mueller. Presentation to the 2023 Iowa Rural Health Association Conference, Marshalltown, Iowa. - 7/22/2023 - Rural Health Policy Landscape: Implications for Addressing Behavioral Health
Keith J. Mueller. Presentation in the 48th Annual Rural Social Work Conference, Virtual.
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