The Rural Community Hospital Demonstration provides enhanced Medicare reimbursement for inpatient services to small rural hospitals that do not qualify as critical access hospitals. AIR is leading the evaluation of the RCHD for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
David E. Hayes-Bautista is Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in the Division of General Internal Medicine. For over three decades he has researched the Latino Epidemiological Paradox and its ...
Timothy Hill is a senior vice president and leads AIR's Health Division. Hill previously served as vice president for client engagement (2019-2024), first at IMPAQ international and then at AIR when the institute acquired IMPAQ in 2020. He is a highly experienced federal health policy expert, who has led diverse ...
States have the flexibility to set Medicaid payment rates for providers consistent with federal regulations that require payments promoting the Medicaid program’s economy and efficiency. As supplemental payments are now a major source of Medicaid reimbursement for providers in many states, both the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the Medicaid and ...