5 Tips to Get Health Care from Anywhere

February 18, 2026

5 Tips to Get Health Care from Anywhere

Accessing care doesn’t mean you have to travel to a clinic – telehealth lets you connect using your phone or other device.

Share this 5-step tip sheet to help patients prepare for a successful virtual visit.

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Delivering Dental Care in Rural Schools Using Telehealth

February 18, 2026

Delivering Dental Care in Rural Schools Using Telehealth

By the age of 8, over half of children in the U.S. have had a cavity. Cavities and dental disease can affect children’s education. Telehealth is a tool that may help increase access to oral health care.

This National Children’s Dental Health Month, learn how a HRSA grantee is using telehealth to bring dentistry to children at school.

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Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities Extension

February 18, 2026

Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities Extension

Recent legislation authorized an extension of many Medicare telehealth flexibilities through December 31, 2027. This includes:

Extensions of telehealth access options:

  • Medicare patients can receive telehealth services for non-behavioral/mental health care in their home through December 31, 2027.
  • Waiving geographic and originating site requirements,
  • Expanding practitioners eligible to furnish telehealth services,
  • Allowing Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics to serve as distant site providers,
  • Delaying in-person requirements for tele-mental health services, and
  • Allowing audio-only telehealth

Rural Health:

  • FQHCs and RHCs can serve as Medicare distant site providers for non-behavioral/mental telehealth services through December 31, 2027.
  • Non-behavioral/mental telehealth services in Medicare can be delivered using audio-only communication platforms through December 31, 2027.
  • FQHCs and RHCs can permanently serve as a Medicare distant site provider for behavioral/mental telehealth services.
  • Medicare patients can permanently receive telehealth services for behavioral/mental health care in their home.
  • There are no geographic restrictions for originating site for Medicare behavioral/mental telehealth services on a permanent basis.
  • Behavioral/mental telehealth services in Medicare can permanently be delivered using audio-only communication platforms.

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Apply to the Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program

February 2, 2026

Apply to the Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program

The Nurse Corps Loan Repayment Program is accepting applications through March 12, 7:30 p.m. E.T.

Nurses employed full time in critical shortage facilities or teaching as nurse faculty at an accredited school of nursing may be eligible to ay off up to 60 percent of nursing education debt with two years of Nurse Corps service. You may be able to reduce debt by an additional 25 percent with a third year of service.

Before you apply:

Get help with your application:

HRSA Announces New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

January 22, 2026

HRSA Announces New Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

This month, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy’s (FORHP’s) parent agency announced updated cervical cancer screening guidelines that include a new option for women to self-collect samples for screening. Additionally, the guideline includes new language requiring most insurance plans to cover any additional testing needed to complete the screening process for malignancies.

Recent research shows a rate of cervical cancer that is 25 percent higher in rural areas; the same study found the rate of cervical cancer deaths is 42 percent higher.

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Telehealth Funding Opportunity – Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program

January 22, 2026

Telehealth Funding Opportunity – Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth is forecasting four funding opportunities to be released in the coming months. These programs will support innovations in telehealth technology to improve health outcomes for all Americans and increase access to health care.

The Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program will support the use of technology-enabled collaborative learning to improve retention of health care providers and increase access to health care services in rural and underserved areas.

Estimated Post Date: February 2, 2026

Estimated Application Due Date: April 03, 2026

Eligible Applicants

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

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Telehealth Funding Opportunity – Chronic Care Telehealth Centers for Excellence Program

January 22, 2026

Telehealth Funding Opportunity – Chronic Care Telehealth Centers for Excellence Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth is forecasting four funding opportunities to be released in the coming months. These programs will support innovations in telehealth technology to improve health outcomes for all Americans and increase access to health care.

The Chronic Care Telehealth Centers for Excellence program will fund academic medical centers to integrate innovative telehealth technologies into the full spectrum of services included in chronic care models, including but not limited to, chronic disease prevention and management, and the treatment for acute episodes that result from long-term morbidity. These centers will disseminate findings through research publications and will serve as national models for integrating telehealth technology into chronic care services.

Estimated Post Date: February 23, 2026

Estimated Application Due Date: April 24, 2026

Eligible Applicants

  • Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
  • Private institutions of higher education

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Telehealth Funding Opportunity – Telehealth Nutrition Services Network Grant Program

January 22, 2026

Telehealth Funding Opportunity – Telehealth Nutrition Services Network Grant Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth is forecasting funding opportunities to be released in the coming months. These programs will support innovations in telehealth technology to improve health outcomes for all Americans and increase access to health care.

Forecasted Telehealth Funding Opportunities

The Telehealth Nutrition Services Network Grant Program will support telehealth networks that improve access to quality health care services through telehealth technology. This program will focus on chronic disease prevention and chronic disease management through comprehensive telehealth nutrition services.

  • Eligible Applicants:
    • Native American Tribal Governments
    • Private institutions of higher education
    • Independent school districts
    • Public and state-controlled institutions of higher education
    • State governments
    • Native American tribal organizations
    • Small businesses
    • County governments
    • For profit organizations other than small businesses
    • Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
    • City or township governments
    • Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS
  • Estimated Post Date: February 16, 2026
  • Estimated Application Due Date: April 17, 2026

This NOFO will have a statutory funding preference for an eligible entity which meets one of the following criteria:

  • Organization: The eligible entity is a rural community-based organization or another community-based organization.
  • Services: The eligible entity proposes to use Federal funds made available through such a grant to develop plans for, or to establish, telehealth networks that provide mental health care, public health services, long-term care, preventive care, case management services, prenatal care, labor care, birthing care, or postpartum care
  • Coordination: The eligible entity demonstrates how the project to be carried out under the grant will be coordinated with other relevant federally funded projects in the areas, communities, and populations to be served through the grant.
  • Network: The eligible entity demonstrates that the project involves a telehealth network that includes and entity that provides clinical health care services or educational services for health care providers and for patients or their families and is a public library, an institution of higher education or a local government entity.
  • Connectivity: The eligible entity proposes a project that promotes local and regional connectivity within areas, communities or populations to be served through the project.

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New: Patient Tip Sheet on Using Telehealth for Chronic Diseases

January 22, 2026

New: Patient Tip Sheet on Using Telehealth for Chronic Diseases

Telehealth can help people manage, and even prevent, chronic diseases. Share this tip sheet with your patients so they can learn how to use telehealth to track their health by connecting with providers for virtual visits and using remote monitoring devices.

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New: Best Practice Guide on Telehealth for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease

January 22, 2026

New: Best Practice Guide on Telehealth for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease

Telehealth can be used to support the prevention and management of chronic conditions. Explore the latest tools and strategies for the effective use of telehealth technologies to support chronic disease prevention and management including specifics on getting started, developing a strategy, billing, and engaging patients.

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