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stover? >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. my name is george stover, and i serve as the chief executive officer of hospital district number one of rice county in lyons, kansas. lyons has a population of 3800. our community hospital, which first opened in 1959 is a 25-bed critical access hospital that employees approximately 150 individuals. rural community hospitals have a long and distinguished commitment of providing care for all who seek it, 24/7, 365. more than 36% of all kansans live in rural areas, and depend on a local hospital serving their community. rural hospitals face a unique set of challenges because of the remote geographic location, small size, scarce workforce, physician shortages, higher percentage of medicare and medicaid patients, and a constrained financial resources that limited access to capital. these challenges alone would make it difficult for many rural hospitals to survive. however, one disturbing chal

stover? >> mr. chairman and members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. my name is george stover, and i serve as the chief executive officer of hospital district number one of rice county in lyons county. lyons has a population of 3800. our community hospital, which first opened in 1959 is a 25-bed critical access hospital that employees approximately 150 individuals. rural community hospitals have a long and distinguished commitmentment of providing care for all who seek it 24/7 365. more than 36% of all kansans live in rural areas and depend on a local hospital serving their community. rural hospitals face a unique set of challenges because of the remote geographic location small size scarce workforce, physician shortages, higher percentage of medicare and medicaid patients and a constrained financial resources that limited access to capital. these challenges alone would make it difficult for many rural hospitals to survive. however, one disturbing challenge that

stover. i think i'll go last this time. so the order would be senator murray, senator cochran, senator moran. senator murray? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you very much to all of our panelists. i really appreciate all of you participating today. ms. peterson, i'm really excited to hear about the delivery system reform work under way. and i'm proud that our hospitals have been recognized as national leaders in increasing the quality and safety of care. i'm particularly excited about the recent grant from the centers for medicare and medicaid innovation you mentioned in your testimony to support the healthy washington initiative efforts to improve care statewide that will reduce costs and stabilize some of our rural hospitals. what have you found to be the most significant barriers to integrating care in the first year of this effort? >> at this point, and you're right, it is very exciting what is going on in the state of washington, i would go back to that fragmented reimburseme

stover? >> the wage index relative to critical access hospital reimbursement is not as significant as in a pvs setting it however the idea that physicians and especially trained nurses and phlebotomists and technicians can be recruited to rural areas for less than they would earn into urban areas is simply not true. we compete on a national level for these very very scarce resources. >> same observation, mr. stover? >> yes, mr. chairman. i would agree with my colleague. >> dr. henderson my last question would be on telemedicine, are you getting reimbursed committee of the behavioral health also? >> we do. >> are you be dashed are getting reimbursed the same way would be for all other health items? >> we are. >> and your goal is to recapture all costs? >> correct and integrate these dashed and pay for health and medical clicks as well. >> do you have any studies yet that would indicate how much better people do with their other health problems if your data with their behavioral health problems

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george stover the ceo of rice county hospital district in lyon, kansas. >> so thank you all for being here. mr. walters, if you want to start with your testimony, we'll go right down the line, then. >> thank you, chairman blanche, member murray first the chance to discuss current challenges. again, i'm tim walters. i oversee government reimbursement programs in bolivar, missouri and osage beach missouri. 50 rural hospitals have closed since january 2010. rural hospital closure means more than just the loss of access to health care for a community. as a rural hospital is frequently the largest employer in town, its closure represents an economic blow as well. my written testimony provides several examples of what is working in rural hospitals, including quality health care at a reasonable price to the medicare program and programs like the medical home program which improves the health in our communities. i want to focus my oral comments though, on four specific challenges rural hospitals face. first, patient volumes are lower at rural hospitals and also flauk wait significantly on a d