• Status and Future of Health Care Delivery in Rural Wyoming, July 2007  
• Status and Future of Health Care Delivery in Rural Wyoming: A Summary Report, July 2007  
• Rural Diabetes Care Management Programs: An Inventory of Sample Programs in Six States December, 2005
• Enrollment in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP):  State and County-Level Enrollment Analysis 

RECENT CENTER PUBLICATIONS
Policy Briefs

• Critical Access Hospitals' Experiences with Medicare Advantage Plans. March 2008

• National Rural Hospital Charges Due to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. PB2007-4. December 2007

• Regional Variation in Rural Hospital Charges Due to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. PB2007-5. December 2007

• State Updates on Medicare Advantage Enrollment. November 2007

• Reliance on Independently Owned Pharmacies in Rural America. PB2007-6. November, 2007

  • State maps showing the locations of communities with only one pharmacy, independently owned..

• Update on Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage: Growth Continues. PB2007-7. October, 2007

  • Detailed data about Medicare Advantage enrollment and plans. PB2007-7 Tables.

• Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Growing Rapidly in 2007, Especially in Private Fee-for-Service Plans. PB2007-3. July, 2007

• Rural Enrollment in Medicare Advantage Is Concentrated in Private Fee-for- Service Plans   PB2007-2. April 2007

• Enrollment in Medicare Part D for Rural Beneficiaries is Encouraging  PB2007-1.  January, 2007

  • Maps Supporting Medicare Part D Enrollment Brief, PB2007-1

  • Color maps Supporting Medicare Part D Enrollment Brief, PB2007-1

• Medicare Physician Payment: Impacts of Changes on Rural Physicians  PB2006-2.  September, 2006

• Chronic Disease Management Systems (Registries) in Rural Health Care  PB2006-1.  May, 2006. 

• Medicare Part D: Early Findings on Enrollment and Choices for Rural Beneficiaries?  PB2006-8.  April, 2006.  Includes map of Percent of Rural Persons Enrolled in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (PDPs), as of March 2006. 

• Why are Health Care Expenditures Increasing and Is There A Rural Differential?  PB2005-7.  November 2005. 

Policy Papers

• One Year In: Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies and Medicare Part D   P2007-1.  September 2007

• The Experience of Sole Community Rural Independent Pharmacies with Medicare Part D: Reports from the Field  P2006-3.  December, 2006

• Elements of Successful Rural Diabetes Management Programs  P2006-2.  July, 2006

• Definition of Rural in the Context of MMA Access Standards for Prescription Drug Plans. A Joint Publication of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis (Policy Paper P2004-7) and the North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Working Paper No. 79)  P2004-7.  September, 2004

RECENT CENTER PRESENTATIONS

• [PDF] Rural Pharmacy Research Findings, September 27-28, 2007. Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D. Presented to Emerging Issues in Rural Pharmacy Meeting.

• [PDF] Changes in Rural Communities and Rural Health Care Services, September 10, 2007. Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D. Keynote address SERA-19: Rural Health, Atlanta Georgia.

• [PDF] Lessons Learned from Policy Staff, August 27, 2007. Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D. Presented to the Office of Rural Health Policy, All Programs Meeting, Washington, DC.

• [PDF] Changes in Health Care Delivery and Finance.  August 2, 2007.  Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D.  Presented at the Texas Rural Health Association Annual Conference.

• [PDF] Changes in Health Care Delivery and Finance.  August 2, 2007.  Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D.  Presented at the Texas Rural Health Association Annual Conference.

• [PDF] Development of a Rural Typology GIS for Policy Makers.  July 20, 2007.  Michael Shambaugh-Miller, Ph.D.  Presented at the 6th Quadrennial Conference of British - Canadian - American Rural Geographers.

• [PDF] Medicare Advantage Plans and CAHs: Friends or Foes?  July 19, 2007.  Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D.  Presented at the South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations.

• [PDF] Transformation in Health Care Delivery: The Future in Rural America.  June 19, 2007.  Keith J. Mueller, Ph.D.  Presented at the Minnesota Rural Health Conference.