National Rural Hospital Flexibility Monitoring Project

Year 3 of the five year evaluation of the Medicare National Rural Hospital Flexibility Program. The University of Minnesota will serve as the lead center and will subcontract with USM and the North Carolina Rural Health Policy Analysis and Research Center to conduct the evaluation, which will focus on state, institutional, and community level. The overall evaluation will include the collection and analysis of primary and secondary data, both quantitative and qualitative, to understand and evaluate the impact of the Medicare National Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.