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Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program

 
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 93.241
Sponsors
Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Deadlines
Apr 16, 2024
Contact

For programmatic or technical questions:
Laura Seifert
lseifert@hrsa.gov

For grants management or budget questions:
Bria Haley
bhaley@hrsa.gov

Purpose

The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program provides support to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) for quality improvement, quality reporting, performance improvements, and benchmarking; designating facilities as critical access hospitals; and the provision of rural emergency medical services (EMS).

Program areas include:
  • Improve the quality of care provided by CAHs
  • Improve the financial and operational outcomes of CAHs
  • CAH population health improvement
  • Rural EMS Improvement
  • CAH Designation
Eligibility

Eligible applicants are states, including states that are current Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program award recipients under HRSA-19-024 or states submitting a new application from a Governor designated entity.

Geographic coverage
Nationwide
Amount of funding

Award ceiling: See Appendix: State Funding Levels in the application instructions.
Number of awards: Up to 45
Project period: 5 years
Total funding available: $30,000,000

Application process

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Applicant webinar
January 31, 2024
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern
Call-in number: 833.568.8864
Meeting ID: 160 222 5205

Tagged as
Critical Access Hospitals · Emergency medical services · Healthcare business and finance · Healthcare quality · Hospitals · Population health · Reimbursement and payment models

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