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This research letter notes: “The Rural Emergency Hospital is a new Medicare payment model available to hospitals with 50 or fewer beds in rural areas. Rural hospitals converting to this model will have emergency department (ED), observation, and outpatient services.”. Their study concludes that the majority of these hospitals already transfer the vast majority of their admissions to larger hospitals and this designation is a recognition of already established practices.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2023.08.492
RESEARCH LETTER| VOLUME 83, ISSUE 2, P177-180, FEBRUARY 2024
Suitability of Low-Volume Rural Emergency Departments to New Rural Emergency Hospital Designation
Margaret B. Greenwood-Ericksen, MD, MSc