July 10, 2024

Notice of Funding Opportunity: Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) released a new Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to improve access to quality health services.

The Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program – HRSA-25-079, provides funding to freestanding children’s hospitals to train pediatric and other residents in graduate medical education programs and aims to provide balance in the level of federal graduate medical education funding.

The purpose of this grant is to compensate for the disparity in the level of federal graduate medical education (GME) funding for freestanding children’s teaching hospitals versus other types of teaching hospitals.

Freestanding children’s hospitals receive little to no GME funding from Medicare because children’s hospitals have a low Medicare caseload.

Applications are due by August 8, 2024

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Have questions? Join the technical assistance webinar to learn more about this funding opportunity, including application requirements.

Click Here to join webinar, July 18, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. ET

July 9, 2024

ACO Flex Model Office Hour – July 16

In this hour-long session, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Innovation will provide an overview of the new ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO Flex Model, which will focus on primary care delivery in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (SSP).

The ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model) is a voluntary model that will focus on:

• Primary care delivery in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Shared Savings Program)
• Testing how prospective payments and increased funding for primary care in Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) impact:
  • health outcomes
  • quality
  • costs of care

In Addition, the flexible payment design will empower participating ACOs and their primary care providers to:

• Use more innovative, team-based, person-centered and proactive approaches to care

The model, which starts January 1, 2025, aims to grow participation in ACOs and the Shared Savings Program and increase the number of people with Medicare in an accountable care relationship.

CMS has released a Request for Applications and the application portal is open until August 1 for new or renewing ACOs who submitted an application to SSP by June 17, 2024.

CMS plans to announce applicants selected to participate in October 2024.

This model seeks to increase accountable care relationships for people with Medicare, especially those in rural and underserved communities.

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Office Hours: Tuesday, July 16, 2:00 p.m. ET

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July 8, 2024

USDA Funding Opportunity: Broadband Technical Assistance Program, August 20

The Broadband Technical Assistance (BTA) program provides financial assistance through cooperative agreements to eligible entities to receive or deliver broadband technical assistance and training.

Eligible Applicants Include:

• Federal-recognized Tribes and Tribal entities
• State of local governments, including agencies and subdivisions
• Territories or possessions of the United States
• Institutions of higher education (including 1862 Land-Grant Institutions, 1890 Land-Grant Institutions, 1994 Land-Grant Institutions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• Nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) IRS status
• Cooperatives or mutual organizations
• Corporations
• Limited Liability Companies or Limited Liability Partnerships

Applications are due by August 20, 2024, 11:59 p.m. ET

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July 8, 2024

National Medical Fellowships – Health Equity Leaders Program for Underrepresented Professionals, Apply by August 12

This program provides students from groups that are underrepresented in health care, medical, and allied health professions with a learning opportunity in health equity services, scholarship, leadership and policy.

Eligible applicants must be:

• Currently enrolled in an accredited medical, graduate-level nursing, or physician assistant school
• Interested in working in underserved communities, and
• Part of a group NMF designates as underrepresented:
  • African American/Black
  • Hispanic/Latino
  • American Indian
  • Alaska Native
  • Asian American (Vietnamese or Cambodian only)
  • Native Hawaiian
  • Other Pacific Islander

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July 8, 2024

New Funding Opportunity: Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program – HRSA-24-121

The Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’S) Office for the Advancement of Telehealth will invest approximately $3,800,000 for up to eight new cooperative agreements.

In this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), technology-enabled collaborative learning and capacity building model” means a distance health education model that connects health care professionals, and particularly specialists, with multiple other health care professionals through simultaneous interactive videoconferencing for the purpose of facilitating case-based learning, disseminating best practices  and evaluating outcomes.

The purpose of the Technology-enabled Collaborative Learning Program – HRSA-24-121, is to improve retention of health care providers and increase access to health care services, such as those to address chronic diseases and conditions including

• Alzheimer’s disease
• Infectious diseases
• Mental health and substance use disorders
• Prenatal and maternal health
• Pediatric care
• Pain management
• Palliative care and other specialty care in:
  • Rural areas
  • Frontier areas
  • Health professional shortage areas (HPSAs)
  • Medically underserved areas or medically underserved population or Native Americans

Awarded entities will evaluate, develop, and expand the use of technology-enable learning models to:

• Build capacity
• Improve retention of health care providers
• Increase access to services

Applications must be submitted no later than August 2, 2024.

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