November 21, 2024 – On National Rural Health Day and every day, CMS recognizes the importance of helping rural communities receive quality health care. We encourage you to share the resources below to support the health of the rural communities you serve.
Resources:
- Visit our Rural Health webpage to explore rural health resources, reports, and publications that share information about rural, tribal, frontier, and geographically isolated communities.
- Review the CMS Framework for Advancing Health Care in Rural, Tribal, and Geographically Isolated Communities, which describes how CMS is focusing its efforts to advance rural health. Our Rural Health Equity One-Pager outlines the framework’s six priority areas.
- Read the Rural-Urban Disparities in Health Care in Medicare 2024 report, which summarizes the differences in quality of health care received by people with Medicare in rural and urban areas and how the quality of care can vary by race and ethnicity.
- Download the Advancing Health Equity in Rural, Tribal, and Geographically Isolated Communities: FY 2024 in Review annual summary report to learn how CMS has met the needs of these communities throughout 2024.
- View the Advancing Rural Maternal Health Equity Report to learn how we used our Rural Maternal Health Initiative to address maternal health disparities between June 2019 and November 2021. Share the Rural Health Information Hub to help program organizers develop programs designed for rural communities and learn more about issues affecting Americans living in rural areas.
- Subscribe to the CMS Rural Health listserv to keep up with the latest news on rural health programs and policy.
- Visit the CMS Rural Health Clinics Center, which serves as a hub for information on rural health clinics, including educational resources, policy regulations, and billing/payment-related fact sheets.
- Scan the Rural Health QR Code to access various health care resources for rural, tribal, and geographically isolated communities.
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Read the 2022 MCBS Socio-demographic and Health Characteristics of Medicare Beneficiaries Living in the Community by Metropolitan Residence Status PUF. This Public Use File (PUF) provides estimates on socio-demographic characteristics, general health, disability prevalence, experiences with chronic pain and preventive health behaviors of Medicare beneficiaries living in the community by metropolitan residence status.
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Read the 2023 MCBS Internet Access and Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries Living in the Community by Metropolitan Residence Status PUF. This PUF provides estimates on internet access, frequency of use, and type of use among Medicare beneficiaries living in the community.
Paid for by the US Department of Health and Human Services. Source CMS.gov