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Fewer providers in rural and underserved areas participated in advanced alternative payment models (APMs) compared to other providers over a two-year period, with the high cost a major barrier, a federal watchdog found.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report Wednesday covering the percentage of rural areas and places that have a small number of practitioners from 2017 to 2019. The report comes as the Biden administration is making a new effort to increase participation among such providers.
The report found 11.9% of providers in rural and underserved areas took part in advanced APMs in 2019, compared with 14.8% of providers not in such areas.
But the number of rural and underserved area providers participating in such models did...
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