{"id":529,"date":"2016-06-08T20:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T20:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/health-equity\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2016-09-01T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T18:39:01","slug":"critical-access-hospitals-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/health-equity\/critical-access-hospitals-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Access Hospitals Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"QuickLink\">\n<div class=\"QuickLink_Header\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">Quick Links<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"QuickLink\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raconline.org\/info_guides\/hospitals\/cahfaq.php#whatis\" target=\"_blank\">CAH Frequently Asked Questions by the Rural Assistance Center (RAC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/CertificationandComplianc\/04_CAHs.asp#TopOfPage\" target=\"_blank\">Certification and Compliance by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.flexmonitoring.org\/documents\/CAH_LIST_12_14_07.xls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flexmonitoring.org\/documents\/CAH_LIST_12_14_07.xls\" target=\"_blank\">National List of Critical Access Hospitals<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a title=\"http:\/\/www.flexmonitoring.org\/documents\/CAH_12_17_07.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flexmonitoring.org\/documents\/CAH_12_17_07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National Map of Critical Access Hospitals\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vdh.state.va.us\/OLC\/Laws\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia\u2019s Condition of Participation \/ Rules and Regulations by the Virginia Department of Health Office of Licensure and Certification<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Rural Health Fact Sheets<\/h2>\n<p>The following rural fact sheets have been revised as of April 2008 and can be downloaded:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/MLNProducts\/downloads\/CritAccessHospfctsht.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Access Hospital Fact Sheet<\/a> &#8211; The fact sheet provides information about eligible Critical Access Hospital (CAH) providers; CAH designation; CAH payments; reasonable cost payment principles that do not apply to CAHs; election of Standard Method or Optional (Elective) Payment Method; Medicare Rural Pass-Through funding for certain anesthesia services; Health Professional Shortage Area Incentive payments; Physician Scarcity Area Bonus payments; Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003; and grants to states under the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/MLNProducts\/downloads\/SoleCommHospfctsht508-09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Sole Community Hospital Fact Sheet<\/a> &#8211; The fact sheet provides information about Sole Community Hospital classification and payments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/MLNProducts\/downloads\/fqhcfactsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Federally Qualified Health Center Fact Sheet<\/a> &#8211; The fact sheet provides information about Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) designation; covered FQHC services; FQHC preventive primary services that are not covered; FQHC payments; and the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/mlnproducts\/downloads\/rhcfactsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Rural Health Clinic fact sheet from 2007<\/a> (not yet updated) &#8211; The fact sheet providers information about Rural Health Clinic (RHC) designation; covered RHC services; RHC payments; and the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Helpful CMS Rural Health Websites<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/providers-professionals\/benefits-critical-access-hospitals-and-other-small-rural-hospitals\">Benefits for Critical Access Hospitals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/center\/cah.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Access Hospital Provider Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/center\/fqhc.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Federally Qualified Health Centers Provider Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/center\/hospital.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Hospital Provider Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/providers-professionals\/implementation-support-critical-access-hospitals-and-other-small-rural\">How to Implement Electronic Health Records<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthit.gov\/providers-professionals\/meaningful-use-critical-access-hospitals-and-other-small-hospitals\">Meaningful Use<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/MLNGenInfo\" target=\"_blank\">Medicare Learning Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/home\/regsguidance.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Regulations &amp; Guidance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.hhs.gov\/center\/rural.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Rural Health Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Code of Virginia Governing Critical Access Hospitals: \u00a7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2016\/06\/LIS-_-Code-of-Virginia-_-32.1-122.07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">32.1-122.07<\/a> | \u00a7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/76\/2016\/06\/LIS-_-Code-of-Virginia-_-32.1-125.3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">32.1-125.3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Links CAH Frequently Asked Questions by the Rural Assistance Center (RAC) Certification and Compliance by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) National List of Critical Access Hospitals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Critical Access Hospitals Resources - Health Equity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/health-equity\/critical-access-hospitals-resources\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Critical Access Hospitals Resources - Health Equity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quick Links CAH Frequently Asked Questions by the Rural Assistance Center (RAC) Certification and Compliance by the Centers for Medicare &amp; 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