Data and Findings

View Alternatives to the Outpatient Prospective Payment System: Assessing the Impact on Rural Hospitals--the final report issued in conjunction with the Rural Health Research and Policy Center project Outpatient Payment Policy Under Medicare: Recent Policy Developments from the Rural Perspective.

View the final report Use of Emergency Departments for Conditions Related to Poor Oral Health Care produced by the Walsh Center/Rural Health Research Policy Center

​Read the policy brief developed from findings from the project Exploring the Black Box: Design and Implementation Issues of Pay-for-Performance for Rural Physicians 

​Read the final report for Exploring the Black Box: Design and Implementation Issues of Pay-for-Performance for Rural Physicians.

Read the March 2011 Rural Evaluation Brief from findings associated with the Community Health Workers Evidence Based Models project.

​Read the published paper SAS® Model Selection Macros for Complex Survey Data Using
PROC SURVEYLOGISTIC/SURVEYREG authored by NORC's Fang Wang and Hee-Choon Shin.

Read the policy analysis brief for The Impact of the Elimination of Medicare Bad Debt on Rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) Hospitals

Read Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Has Improved Only Modestly Over a Decade, Health Affairs, the article in Health Affairs (October 2011) authored by NORC's Jennifer Benz, Oscar Espinosa, and Angela Fontes, and Valerie Welsh from the HHS Office of Minority Health.​

​View the data from a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on Surveillance of Health Status in Minority Communities.

​View the final report of A Report on the Teaching Artist Research Project: Teaching Artists and the Future of Education.