Category: HRSA

Now Accepting Applications: Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP), Apply by September 30

August 6, 2025

Now Accepting Applications: Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP), Apply by September 30

The Targeted Technical Assistance for Rural Hospitals Program (TTAP) aims to provide technical assistance to rural hospitals to help maintain essential services locally. Four hospitals will be selected to receive intensive one-on-one technical assistance from consultants to address prioritized financial and operational needs.

The TTAP is a federally funded initiative that offers comprehensive technical assistance to rural hospitals to address financial and operational challenges and maintain essential health services for their communities.

Priority will be given to hospitals with the greatest demonstrated need for TA and the readiness to engage in in-depth technical assistance.

All hospitals will need to apply to be considered. Hospitals that applied last year and were not selected for the intensive TA cohort are encouraged to apply again.

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HRSA Announces Application Process for the 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program and Request for Public Comment

August 5, 2025

HRSA Announces Application Process for the 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program and Request for Public Comment

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced the availability of a voluntary 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program for drugs on the CMS Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Selected Drug List for year 2026 from qualifying manufacturers meeting specific criteria.

HRSA is introducing this pilot program to test the rebate model on these drugs in a methodical and thoughtful approach to ensure a fair and transparent 340B rebate model process. HRSA is implementing this pilot to better understand the merits and shortcomings of the rebate model from the perspective of affected stakeholders, and to help shape any future 340B rebate models that align with the 340B statute and the Administration’s goals.

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CMS Proposes to Decrease Hospital Outpatient Payments for Non-Drug Items and Services to Offset Higher Payments Made as a Result of 340B Payment Policy, Comment by September 15

July 25, 2025

CMS Proposes to Decrease Hospital Outpatient Payments for Non-Drug Items and Services to Offset Higher Payments Made as a Result of 340B Payment Policy, Comment by September 15

Between 2028 and 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decreased Medicare reimbursements to hospitals paid under the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) for drugs acquired through the 340B Drug Pricing Program (“340B Program”), a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) program that allows covered entities to purchase certain outpatient drugs at discounted prices from drug manufacturers.

To maintain budget neutrality, CMS redistributed the savings to all hospitals paid under the OPPS by increasing their payment rates for non-drug items and services. In 2022, the Supreme Court held that because CMS did not conduct a survey of hospitals’ acquisition costs, they could not vary the payment rates for outpatient prescription drugs by hospital group.

In response, CMS finalized in the Final Remedy Rule that 340B hospitals would receive a one-time lump sum payment reimbursing them for the decreased drug payments and CMS would reduce payments for non-drug items and services to all OPPS providers by 0.5 percent starting in 2026 until the total offset was reached (estimated to be about 16 years).

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CMS Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model – Apply by July

July 15, 2025

CMS Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model – Apply by July

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the new Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model. CMS will partner with companies specializing in enhanced technologies to test ways to provide an improved and expedited prior authorization process relative to Original Medicare’s existing processes.

The WISeR Model will test a new process on whether enhanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can expedite the prior authorization processes for select items and services that have been identified as particularly vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse, or inappropriate use.

Companies selected to participate in the model must have clinicians with appropriate expertise to conduct medical reviews and validate coverage determinations. CMS has issued a Request for Applications for companies interested in participating in the WISeR Model.

Additional information is available in the Model Overview Fact Sheet and on the Federal Register.

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Apply for HRSA’s Faculty Loan Repayment Program, Deadline Extended to July 22

July 15, 2025

Apply for HRSA’s Faculty Loan Repayment Program, Deadline Extended to July 22

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Bureau of Health Workforce will repay a portion of your health professional student loan in return for serving on the faculty at a health professions school.

Successful applicants will receive up to $40,000 in loan repayment assistance as well as funding to offset the tax burden.

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Obstetric Care Access Declined in Rural and Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010-2022

July 15, 2025

Obstetric Care Access Declined in Rural and Urban Hospitals Across US States, 2010-2022

With support from the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania found widespread loss of obstetric services across states, especially among rural hospitals, during the 12-year period studied.

By 2022, eight states had more than two-thirds of rural hospitals without obstetric services.

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Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) – Apply Now to Join the Next Cohort, Deadline August 20

July 15, 2025

Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) – Apply Now to Join the Next Cohort, Deadline August 20

The Rural Hospital Stabilization Program (RHSP) is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) and administered by the National Rural Health Resource Center.

The ultimate goal of this program is to strengthen rural health care delivery nationwide. RHSP provides assistance to help hospitals improve financial stability by enhancing or expanding health care services that meet community needs.

Benefits of Participation

  • Improve financial position and increase operational efficiencies,
  • Enhance stability and sustain access to care,
  • Grow services to increase patient volume,
  • Align service to community needs, bolster revenue and reduce bypass, and
  • Enhance community perception of the hospital.

Hospitals participating in the cohort-style program work to identify clinical areas where expansion or addition of services would help to ensure that care is available locally, and develop those service lines to bolster patient volume, optimize service utilization and improve cash flow.

Hospitals that meet program expectations and are selected for participation may receive financial support for operating and equipment costs for service line development and a Community Engagement Champion.

Apply by August 20

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HRSA Funding Opportunity: Learning Collaborative for HIV Oral Health and Primary Care Integration, HRSA-25-103, Apply by August 12

July 2, 2025

HRSA Funding Opportunity: Learning Collaborative for HIV Oral Health and Primary Care Integration, HRSA-25-103, Apply by August 12

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part F Community Based Dental Partnership Program (CBDPP), Learning Collaborative for HIV Oral Health and Primary Care Integration (CBDPP), cooperative agreement.

This cooperative agreement will:

  • Promote information sharing and exchange,
  • Maintain and strengthen oral health and primary care integration, and
  • Improve dental education and training through Interprofessional training and community-based education, support community-based dental leaders in HIV oral health care.

Who is Eligible to Apply

  • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
  • State governments
  • Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
  • Private institutions of higher education
  • Small businesses
  • Special district governments
  • Independent school districts
  • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
  • City or township governments
  • For profit organizations other than small businesses

Apply by August 12, 2025, no later than 11:59 p.m. ET

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Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program, Apply by July 17

July 2, 2025

Pediatric Specialty Loan Repayment Program, Apply by July 17

Eligible clinicians who provide pediatric medical subspecialty, pediatric surgical specialty, or child and adolescent behavioral health care can apply to this program. HRSA offers up to $100,000 in educational loan repayment. In exchange recipients must work full-time for three years in a Pediatric Specialty LRP-approved facility.

Apply by July 17

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Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan Repayment Program, Apply by July 12

July 2, 2025

Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Loan Repayment Program, Apply by July 12

Eligible substance use disorder (SUD) treatment clinicians and community health workers can apply to this program.

HRSA offers up to $250,000 in educational loan repayment. In exchange, recipients must work full-time for six years in a facility approved for the STAR Loan Repayment program.

Apply by July 12

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