RURAL HEALTH CARE INC Review

  The Most Important Data about RURAL HEALTH CARE INC

In the briefest summary, RURAL HEALTH CARE INC is a medical group with 137 professionals providing medical services at 11 locations. They cover 13 specialties.RURAL HEALTH CARE INC is affiliated with 38 hospitals

National Provider Number (NPI):

3476447541

   What is this page all about?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") compiles and distributes more than 17 tables of data on medical professionals on a sporadic basis. Some of the tables contain more than a million records which makes it very difficult to manage them. There is a lot of information to pour through when trying to understand RURAL HEALTH CARE INC. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the RURAL HEALTH CARE INC does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Ratings, Specialities Covered, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Physician Groups.)

   Specialties Covered by RURAL HEALTH CARE INC

RURAL HEALTH CARE INC includes medical professionals from 13 specialties

Specialty	Number
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER	2
HOSPITALIST	1
NURSE PRACTITIONER	47
PEDIATRIC MEDICINE	4
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT	26
SPORTS MEDICINE	1
CERTIFIED NURSE MIDWIFE (CNM)	2
EMERGENCY MEDICINE	1
FAMILY PRACTICE	38
INTERNAL MEDICINE	10
OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY	10
PSYCHIATRY	1
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST	3

   Ratings for RURAL HEALTH CARE INC

When it comes to healthcare, patients want the best possible care and experience. Figuring this out and boiling it down to a few measures, can be difficult. The information below shows our best analysis. We review all of the the data from CMS. The information below summarizes the results of the most recent annual survey of health care providers called the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or "CAHPS" as well as data used for the calculation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System ("MIPS"). The most recent data for both of these datasets is calendar year 2021. According to the CMS website, the 2022 survey data is being finalized but they have not indicated when it will be publicly available.

CAHPS Survey Results

There is no information about the overall patient rating for RURAL HEALTH CARE INC.

MIPS Measures

Measure	Percent Compliance
Breast Cancer Screening	69%
Cervical Cancer Screening	52%
Controlling High Blood Pressure	72%
Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9%)	20%
Falls: Screening for Future Fall Risk	95%
Health Information Exchange(HIE) Bi-Directional Exchange	Yes
Immunization Registry Reporting	Yes
Implementation of Use of Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop	Yes
Implementation of medication management practice improvements	Yes
Measurement and Improvement at the Practice and Panel Level	Yes
ONC Direct Review Attestation	Yes
ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation	Yes
Practice Improvements for Bilateral Exchange of Patient Information	Yes
Preventive Care and Screening: Influenza Immunization	39%
Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for Depression and Follow-Up Plan	55%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	47%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	99%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	95%
Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information	87%
Query of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)	Yes
Security Risk Analysis	Yes
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting	Yes
e-Prescribing	74%

   RURAL HEALTH CARE INC Office Locations

   Hospitals Affiliated with RURAL HEALTH CARE INC

RURAL HEALTH CARE INC professionals work with these hospitals:

• AVERA DE SMET MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - CAH
• AVERA DELLS AREA HOSPITAL - CAH
• AVERA FLANDREAU HOSPITAL - CAH
• AVERA GRANITE FALLS
• AVERA HAND COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND CLINIC
• AVERA HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA
• AVERA MARSHALL REGIONAL MEDICAL CTR
• AVERA MCKENNAN HOSPITAL & UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTER
• AVERA MISSOURI RIVER HEALTH CENTER
• AVERA QUEEN OF PEACE
• AVERA SACRED HEART HOSPITAL
• AVERA ST BENEDICT HEALTH CENTER - CAH
• AVERA ST MARY'S HOSPITAL
• AVERA WESKOTA MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER - CAH
• BROOKINGS HEALTH SYSTEM
• CARRIS HEALTH - REDWOOD, LLC
• DOUGLAS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL-CAH
• GLACIAL RIDGE HOSPITAL
• MADISON REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM
• MILBANK AREA HOSPITAL/AVERA HEALTH
• MULTICARE AUBURN MEDICAL CENTER
• MULTICARE COVINGTON MEDICAL CENTER
• MULTICARE GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL
• MURRAY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
• OSCEOLA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
• PIPESTONE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER
• PLATTE HEALTH CENTER
• PRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, INC
• SANFORD CANBY MEDICAL CENTER
• SANFORD CHAMBERLAIN MEDICAL CENTER
• SANFORD CLEAR LAKE MEDICAL CENTER
• SANFORD JACKSON MEDICAL CENTER
• SANFORD USD MEDICAL CENTER
• SANFORD WORTHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER
• STEVENS COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER
• TACOMA GENERAL ALLENMORE HOSPITAL
• WINDOM AREA HEALTH
• WINNESHIEK MEDICAL CENTER

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