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Volume 2, No. 1: Focus on Critical Access Hospital Development

• Financial Feasibility Issues

• Financial Feasibility Case Studies

• CAH Policy issues

Volume 2, No. 2: Focus on Critical Access Hospital Development

• Integrated Part B: A reimbursement incentive for physician/hospital partnerships

• Case Examples: The impact of CAH conversion on payment for lab services

• Options for hospitals that operate Gero-Psychiatric Units

Volume 3, No. 1: Focus on the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement Act of 2000 (BIPA)—Impact on the Rural Health System

• Questions and answers on BIPA for rural hospitals, physicians, and clinics

• Assessing the financial impact of BIPA

Volume 3, No. 2: The CAH as the Anchor of a Community Services Network

• Provider-based Rural Health Clinic: Assuring Access, Enhancing Reimbursement

• Measures to Assess Whether CAH Is Maximizing Its Potential