#rural health care

[medical-billing-service-0]

Understanding Rural Health Care Services and Their Role in Medical Billing

In today's healthcare industry, medical billing services play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of healthcare providers, especially in rural areas. Medical billing involves managing the process of submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies, ensuring that healthcare providers are paid for their services. For rural health centers, the complexity of billing and coding can be overwhelming, making it essential to have a streamlined system in place. This is where effective medical billing services come into play, especially with the unique needs of rural healthcare services.

What Are Rural Health Care Services?

Rural Health Care Services focus on delivering healthcare to communities that are geographically isolated or have limited access to healthcare facilities. These services are specifically designed to cater to populations in areas where healthcare resources may be scarce or difficult to reach. Due to the specific challenges rural areas face, Rural Health Care Services often rely on RCM services (Revenue Cycle Management) to manage billing, claims, and reimbursements efficiently. By ensuring that rural healthcare providers are properly reimbursed for their services, RCM services help to maintain financial stability and ensure continuous patient care in these underserved areas.

The Importance of Medical Billing and Coding for Rural Health

Medical billing and coding are critical components of the revenue cycle in any healthcare setting, and this is particularly true for rural health facilities. Accurate medical billing and coding help ensure that healthcare providers in rural areas are compensated promptly and fairly for the services they provide. Given the limited financial resources that rural health facilities often have, incorrect billing or delayed payments can severely impact their ability to operate efficiently. With proper medical billing and coding, these facilities can continue providing essential healthcare services to rural communities without worrying about financial constraints.

The Benefits of Healthcare IT in Rural Health Care

Healthcare IT plays a transformative role in modernizing rural healthcare services. By adopting technology solutions, rural healthcare providers can streamline their operations, from patient records to billing and claims processing. Efficient Healthcare IT systems enable rural health facilities to manage patient data securely, process billing efficiently, and reduce errors. This not only improves patient care but also helps rural health centers to comply with regulatory requirements. Furthermore, Healthcare IT facilitates telemedicine services, which are becoming increasingly vital in bridging the gap in healthcare access for remote populations.

Mediclaim Management and Its Role in Rural Health Care Services

Mediclaim Management specializes in offering tailored Rural Health Care Services, ensuring that rural healthcare providers can manage their billing and claims processes without complications. The company's rural healthcare billing services address the specific challenges faced by healthcare providers in rural settings, such as limited resources, complex regulations, and the need for accurate coding. By optimizing the billing process and providing comprehensive support, Mediclaim Management helps rural health providers stay financially viable while focusing on delivering quality care to their communities.

For more information on how Mediclaim Management supports rural healthcare providers, visit Rural Health Care Billing Services.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Children's Health Comes First In Oxford County," Toronto Star. September 30, 1943. Page 23. --- HEALTHY and happy in her schoolwork is Margaret Wooddall of Bond's school. She is one of thousands of Oxford county children regularly examined under health plan. Her father is chairman of Bond's school board.

OXFORD COUNTY'S visiting nurse. Mrs. Hazel McNeil arrives at East Zorra school. Here she is being greeted by the school children, all of whom will receive a check-up before Mrs. McNeil drives on to another rural school in the county. Oxford county, with school health plan far in lead of other districts. Nurses give dental examinations as well.

BOB WILKS, age 12, of R.R. No. 6 gets free and expert medical attention on his black eye from Nurse McNeil during her visit to East Zorra school. School children get best of preventive examination against communicable diseases. Head nurse is Margaret Grieve, Woodstock. More pictures on third page on this section.

IRENE PORTER, of the East Zorra school, writes a health message on the blackboard, showing her enthusiasm for the health scheme. Oxford county provides only permanent health organization for rural schools; other counties may follow lead. Oxford county has a medical officer of health in each of 11 townships, three urban districts.

[tramontane-fire]

It's friday 13 and I got called into work on my much anticipated day off to take a long distance transfer fml.

[thoughtportal]

Hospital shuts down labor and delivery department

[vossn]

If all goes well I am starting Testosterone tomorrow 🫡

[feline-evil]

It wasn't funny at the time but looking back on it man it is genuinely hilarious how my first attempt at getting diagnosed and getting help with my mental illnessess went.

So imagine if you will the skinniest, most unwell, sleepless looking 18 year old, just real Victorian orphan vibes with permanent shakes and a penchant for passing out in fear if he so much as thinks of leaving the house. I need you to know that's the kind of state i was in when i walked into a doctors office to see one of the oldest men i've ever seen in an employed field. He sits me down and asks me what's wrong, he's the GP at my local doctors; that's a general practitioner, if you're outside of the UK maybe that's not a familiar term. Anyway he's not a psychologist, you don't get to see a psychologist unless your GP refers you! Anyway he asks me whats wrong and i explain to him my long list of debilitating anxiety symptoms, i tell him about not being able to eat or sleep or leave the house; i'm in a bad way at this point in my life, it's not a good time for young jay! Lad doesn't even know he's a man yet! Pretty bad time all round!

And so after i explain to him the situation we get our first of the many funny 'i'm not sure this man is qualified to have this conversation' red flags.

"Do you have a boyfriend?"

Uh oh.

Well no, sir, on account of the not leaving the house socialisation has been tricky, see?

"Oh you need a boyfriend and some friends, that'll help love :)"

Uh oh.

It is at this point in the appointment we are winding down towards the end of my time here at the doctors, and our next big ol' waving red flag hits like a jet liner. And this ones the big one, the one that gives me reason to tell this story and watch people look a mite aghast.

The GP laughs, claps a hand on my shoulder and says "well don't you worry, we won't be locking you up for this one!"

I freeze in shock.

What did this man just say.

Now, i don't wish to imply that this wouldn't be a horrifying thing to say to a different teen riddled with severe mental illness who didn't have a family history of relatives being admitted to psychiatric institutes, but i am suggesting that MAYHAPS. JUST POTENTIALLY. That was a slightly more horrifying sentence to come out of a medical professionals mouth to someone who has that as a family history in his own living memory! So i lock up in horror, alarms blaring in my mind, wondering how the fuck i'm going to politely and finitely end this conversation and meeting and leave vowing never to cross this mans path again in my life; but i don't get much time to ponder what to do, because here comes the final red flag, that second jet liner crashing right in, the final can of petrol being poured on the burning wreck that is the first appointment i have ever made to talk about my mental health.

This man, a complete stranger, i had never met this GP before in my life, hugs me. It is so uncomfortable, i would not say i am the most comfortable with physical contact from strangers even now nearly ten years later, but then? At age eighteen? This is just about the worst thing that could've happened in my eyes! I do not come from a family that hugs, i didn't not know how to hug back then, in that moment it's awkward and weird and i just freeze and wait for it to end, and then i leave the room with the GP beaming and waving after me like he's just performed a miracle and i'll forever be cured from this point on.

I walk to my mom waiting for me in the waiting room, she smiles and gives me a thumbs up.

GENUINELY it couldn't have gone worse, objectively the funniest awful situation i have ever been in.

[lucysweatslove]

I don’t know what I expected today, but I most definitely did not expect to be told, in Russian, that I deserve to die by strangulation bc I’m not “fulfilling my destiny” by choosing not to have kids.

[twopercentboy]

probably the most radicalizing life experience I've had so far is going to highschool in rural Alaska.

watching the systems fail us over and over again really makes you want to raze the whole thing and start over. my friends and I should not have to watch our peers die every single year while everyone else pretends they care and are trying to help. the systems in place do nothing but harm us and the programs they're trying to establish to help us are never actually helpful. im just so tired and so angry that no one cares about the rural villages and their youth. my friends have all had siblings, cousins, childhood friends, die by suicide and no one ever cares. we shouldn't have to watch this happen over and over again. we have only ever been the number one state in one thing and it's our youth suicide rates. this has been a problem for longer than I've been alive, and still, nothing is Actually being done.

every single year of my highschool career at least 3 people attempted to kill themselves and that's just my school. another one of my classmates died a couple days ago because the systems failed her too, and still, nothing ever fucking changes.

I'm just so fucking tired of it, we shouldn't have to watch this happen, the government should be trying harder to lower the suicide rates, they should be pushing resources to the villages every chance they get, but they don't, because when have they ever cared about our native youth?

[erinfulmerwrites]

It’s seriously so fucked that anyone with a fake ID can buy a 40 at the corner store for a few bucks and meth from the guy outside no questions asked but to get psychiatric care you have to jump through ten million hoops of executive function and pay $200 a visit assuming you can even FIND a doctor close to home and they are probably an asshole who doesn’t respect you

[tomorrowusa]

Extremist GOP anti-abortion policies in red states are ironically making it difficult for women to give birth in such places.

Hospitals are increasingly closing down their obstetrics units because it’s becoming harder to find doctors who would want to work in areas where they could be prosecuted for providing women’s healthcare.

Brooke Macumber planned to have her fourth child in the same small hospital where two of her older children were born — the same place her husband had been delivered decades earlier.

[ ... ]

Bonner General Health in rural Sandpoint, Idaho, was shuttering its obstetrics unit after almost 75 years. Now, the closest hospital able to deliver her baby is more than an hour’s drive from her home.

[ ... ]

Access to obstetric services has been on the decline for years in rural areas, with at least 89 obstetrics units in rural U.S. hospitals closing their doors between 2015 and 2019, according to the American Hospital Association. More than half of rural counties — home to 2.2 million women of childbearing age — are now maternity-care deserts.

Some obstetricians say the problem has been exacerbated by the recent passage of laws criminalizing abortion, which can make recruiting and retaining physicians all the more difficult.

You can blame the overwhelmingly Republican Idaho legislature for the end of obstetrics at Bonner General Health. 

In a news release announcing the decision on Friday, Bonner General Health officials cited a shortage of pediatricians and decreasing number of deliveries. The release also pointed to the “legal and political climate” in a state where trigger laws banned nearly all abortions after the fall of the constitutional right to an abortion.

“Highly respected, talented physicians are leaving,” it said. “Recruiting replacements will be extraordinarily difficult. In addition, the Idaho Legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care.

”Idaho has some of the strictest abortion laws in the nation. A trigger law passed in 2020, which the state Supreme Court allowed to take effect last summer, criminalizes the procedure in almost all cases, with possible defenses if a doctor determines it necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman or if the pregnant woman has reported rape or incest to law enforcement. A medical provider who violates the law can face felony charges punishable by two to five years in prison, along with suspension or revocation of their medical license.

Far right Republicans pretend that they are are pro-family. At the behest of extreme fundamentalist Christians they would turn women into little more than baby-making machines. But their laws may be making women reconsider having children because medical care for them is becoming more scarce in rural red states. 

The Idaho Republican Party platform — adopted in the summer of 2022, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that allowed states to ban abortion — goes further. It declares that “abortion is murder from the moment of fertilization” and calls for its prevention “regardless of the circumstances of conception, including persons conceived in rape and incest.” The platform says the party supports criminalizing all abortions within the state.

Republicans legislators in red states are more interested in revoking three centuries of social progress which then results in serious healthcare issues for their constituents.

The loss of labor and delivery services in rural hospitals can be dangerous. An absence of obstetric care is significantly associated with increased preterm births and more births in facilities that lack staffs trained in labor and delivery, according to a 2018 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Some patients who have problems in pregnancy walk into centers without obstetrics departments, leaving emergency-medicine doctors to handle issues that may be beyond their expertise.

Gustafson said she fears that Idaho’s maternal death total — which more than doubled from 2019 to 2020, the most recent year for which data is available — will rise with one fewer unit of doctors trained in labor and delivery.

The US already had the highest maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world. The GOP is working to get that rate even higher.

These Republican restrictions on abortion are the products of GOP state legislatures. People tend to pay little attention to state government until it’s too late.

The very first step in ending GOP control is to find out who is representing you in the chambers of your legislature. This site can help with that.

Find Your Legislators Look your legislators up by address or use your current location.

Once you know who represents you, get active in electing Democrats and defeating fundamentalist anti-woman Republicans.

EDIT: Idaho Republicans are too busy bringing back firing squads to care about obstetric services for constituents. 

Idaho lawmakers approve bill that would allow execution by firing squad    

[timeless-clarity]

Exploring The Core Belief: ‘I’m Not Good Enough’

How knowing that my beloved dog was peacefully chilling at home while I endured the depressive hellscape of school convinced me I wasn’t good enough to live a meaningful life. Getting To The Core

Have you ever stopped to think about where your biggest insecurities began? One of mine—“I’m not good enough”—has been a steady voice for most of my life. It pops up when I’m tired, overwhelmed, or triggered, like an automatic reflex. For years, I questioned it, but I feared what lay underneath. I opened the lid of the box so far then closed it and buried it because it felt too scary.

But when I did finally open it, safely in therapy, I saw it for what it was. And it was even a bit too simple!

This belief was planted in me during school—a place that should’ve fostered growth but for me did the opposite.

Where It Began

As an undiagnosed neurodivergent child, I didn’t fit into the mould that school demanded. I wasn’t focused enough, fast enough, or obedient enough. But more than that, school failed to align with one of my core values: meaningful work. I need emotional connection, curiosity, and purpose to commit to any task.

Instead, the work felt disconnected and impersonal. Without emotional meaning, I couldn’t focus, couldn’t stomach it, and couldn’t succeed. The adults around me treated my struggles as personal failures.

They asked, What’s wrong with you? They bribed and threatened me to change and conform. They forced me to apologise for being myself.

All the while, I would sit there, lost in daydreams of being at home with my dog, or in the garden with my Gran, surrounded by colour, joy, and the kind of meaningful experiences I craved. School felt like a punishment for simply existing. I resented how adults enjoyed a life of autonomy—lounging in cafés or wandering in nature —while I was trapped in that joyless box.

Over time, I internalised their message: If I couldn’t change to meet my teachers’ demands, I must not be good enough.

The Impact of Generalisation

The tricky part is: a child’s mind doesn’t distinguish between specific situations and the bigger picture. When I was told I wasn’t good enough for their systems and expectations, my brain didn’t just say, Oh, I’m not good at this one thing. It said, I’m not good at anything.

And this generalisation became my default belief. Whenever I struggled or failed at something, my brain reinforced the same story: See? I told you. You’re not good enough.

[Me in 2021 aged 25, feeling contorted and confused, still convinced I wasn’t good enough]

Challenging the Belief

As an adult, I’ve gradually learned to see through the cracks in this belief. When I’m triggered and that old feeling creeps in, I stop and ask myself:

• Not good enough for what?

• Who decided that?

• Is it even true?

On my good days, I know the belief doesn’t hold up. The school system wasn’t designed for kids like me. It didn’t care about my emotional engagement or my creativity—it wanted compliance. I wasn’t not good enough; I was just in the wrong environment for somebody like me. Primary school was my little 7 year military service.

The Bigger Picture

Now I see that my greatest strengths were in the very qualities I was once shamed for: my emotional depth, my curiosity, and my desire for connection. These are the parts of me that thrive in the 'real' world—the world outside the rigid and outdated systems of an underfunded early 2000s public primary school.

The belief that “I’m not good enough” still lingers, but it’s much quieter now. When it surfaces, I remind myself:

• It’s a relic of a time when I wasn’t understood.

• It’s a lie, rooted in someone else’s inability to see my worth.

• It’s not my truth.

I’m learning to replace it with something more honest: I am enough, just as I am.

[Self-Portrait Summer 2023]

Journal Prompt

If this resonates with you, try reflecting on your own experiences:

• What core belief have you carried from childhood?

• Where do you think it began?

• What happens when you question its truth?

What do I do?

I’m an EFT Tapping Practitioner (Emotional Freedom Techniques). It’s my life’s work to help others get clear on the essence of who they are and what feels authentic for them. My goal is to support people in creating lives filled with emotional fulfilment, purpose, and joy.

If this resonates with you, you can find out more about my work or reach out through my website: claire-farrell.com

It's my honour to hold space as we explore the beliefs and barriers holding you back—making room for your most authentic self to thrive.

You can find helpful Tapping videos and fun updates on my Tiktok @clairefarrell__ Lots of love, Claire

[runawaycarouselhorse]

I got so, so, so close, but I'm back where I started, huh...? It's gonna take another month to get back to normal, but it's alright!

That aside! I attended two days of the three day Global Health Emporium! It was fun listening to the speakers. Owing to, uh, unforeseen outside circumstances and danger, I had to skip out on day three, but 2/3 isn't bad and should be more than enough to secure credit hours! There's blessing in it, I'm sure. ^^

Happy to be back home and resting. Having some tea and toast. A little cupcake too. Also happy the laptop is working again (!!!), it's been so long...

There was a mental health and wellness section that had a lot of artwork and a big canvas for us to paint on too! ^^ They wouldn't let us use more of the acrylics, but, I could use the paint others already used and left in plastic trays turned makeshift palettes... that's more than enough for me! I had fun. Most people just wrote their names or dripped paint beforehand and someone drew an eye, but I wanted to paint something different.

I saw some very amazing new technology too! There's some powerful (amazingly clear!) ultrasounds and endoscopy systems, there was a cute bot with heart eyes who greeted us all in different languages, the government... really loves pushing AI (one of the speakers was so enfatuated by AI, he called them "digital gods" [?!], while using...... Google's Gemini.......... as his example [are you sure you want this for a god?], and immediately after his segment, the lady introducing the speakers casually informed us how it took ChatGPT 8 minutes to figure out she was human before reminding her of her schedule for day of the conference, PFFT, so there's definitely kinks to work out...), but it was also nice to see it used for good (to help people with their health!!!), we saw so many applications and platforms (some I had no idea about!), we also saw stuff about the new unified medical record system (not implemented yet at my rural hospital, our records are only cluster-wide!), I really enjoyed the digital twin concept and how it could be used to predict before you ever have any adverse health events, based on your DNA (which would take SO, SO, SO long for human beings to go through, but AI could speed up the process because that's what it's good for!!!!) what illnesses you are most at risk from, so you can take preventive measures. Awesome stuff.

The funniest comment I heard on Day 1 was "some people have no social anxiety." Really? Is that how I seem? I'm flattered.

I was just eating my food in public (harira soup--the grilled rice and chicken, I picked at, but saved it for dinner, owing to lack of food at the place I was staying [it made a lovely dinner, by the way]) and talking to mama on the phone. I did notice few women eating, but who cares about them, and I don't wear niqab, so I it's not hard at all for me to eat in open/mixed places. Maybe it was the loud phonecall. I am a very loud person.

Day 1 was calm, Day 2 had some catty Mean Girls-esque girls making stupid comments behind me in English (I wonder if they're any relation to my medical school bullies who never, EVER mentally grew up past catty high school bully), poking fun at my figure (they were always jealous of it and that was part of the reason for the bullying), and more of that silly pushing me around/knocking into my shoulder/bumping into me even when I'm painting (I initially thought that one was an a honest mistake, but looking back at the trends, nah)... or it could be someone affiliated with my sister who also went into medicine, who knows.

[townpostin]

Health Guru Dr. Payodhi Dhar to Revolutionize Primary Care in Jharkhand

Dr. Payodhi Dhar Aims to Bring Affordable Healthcare to Rural Areas Key Points: • Dr. Dhar plans to establish primary healthcare in 32,620 villages • Initiative aims to prevent migration for medical treatment • Collaboration with government and experts in the pipeline JAMSHEDPUR – Renowned physician Dr. Payodhi Dhar has unveiled an ambitious plan to transform primary healthcare across Jharkhand’s…

[thoughtportal]

Kentucky Roast Beef

[hell-garden]

I really want to live in rural or semi rural Washington again in a more self sustainable way. Like cottagecore I guess but actually genuinely living off the land

More like Wolf Children

And yes I know it's a white privilege thing to escape the shitty cities and buy land and "escape" and only wealthy people can usually afford it, but it's still a dream

[eloisemia]

Virtual Doctor Care: Bridging Gaps in Rural Healthcare

Virtual doctor care bridges gaps in rural healthcare by providing remote access to medical services. Residents in remote areas can connect with healthcare providers via telemedicine, receiving diagnoses, treatment plans, and prescriptions without needing to travel long distances. This improves healthcare access, reduces wait times, and addresses shortages of healthcare professionals in rural areas, ultimately enhancing health outcomes and patient satisfaction in underserved communities.