{"id":525,"date":"2015-08-15T09:42:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=525"},"modified":"2015-08-15T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T13:42:18","slug":"study-medicare-patients-in-rural-areas-receive-less-follow-up-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Study: Medicare patients in rural areas receive less follow-up health care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(<\/strong>By &#8211;\u00a0Jason deBruyn,\u00a0www.bizjournals.com)<\/p>\n<p>Medicare patients in rural areas have lower rates of follow-up care after leaving the hospital, something that puts them at higher risk of emergency department visits and repeat hospitalizations, according to a study by researchers at RTI International and UNC-Chapel Hill.\u00a0The results, published in the September issue of Medical Care, suggest that patients living in isolated areas were 19 percent less likely to receive follow-up care within 30 days after leaving the hospital than those in urban areas. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/triangle\/news\/2015\/08\/14\/studymedicare-patients-in-rural-areas-receive-less.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Notice: The \u201cRead more\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.Notice:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Jason deBruyn,\u00a0www.bizjournals.com) Medicare patients in rural areas have lower rates of follow-up care after leaving the hospital, something that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}