July 14, 2023
Now Accepting Applications: Virtual/Onsite Technical Assistance for Small Rural Hospitals and RHCs
The Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project (RHPTP) supported by FORHP and the National Rural Health Resource Center is now accepting applications for one year of virtual/onsite technical assistance for small rural hospitals and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) certified rural health clinics (RHCs).
Hospitals must meet all three eligibility requirements listed below; clinics must only meet the “rural area” requirement listed below:
- “Eligible small rural hospital” is defined as a non-federal, short-term general acute care hospital that:
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- Is located in a rural area as defined in 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d) and
- Has 49 available beds or less, as reported on the hospital’s most recently filed Medicare Cost Report
- “Rural area” is defined as either:
- Located outside of a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)
- Located within a rural census tract of a MSA, as determined under the Goldsmith Modification or the rural Urban Commuting Areas
- Is being treated as if being located in a rural area pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1395ww(d)(8)(E)
- Eligible hospitals may be for-profit or not-for-profit, including faith-based. Hospitals in U.S. territories as well as tribally operated hospitals under Titles I and V of P.L. 93-638 are eligible to the extent that such hospitals meet the above criteria
Additional Requirements
- Must not be a current participant in an advanced payment Model
- Must be financially stable
- Must be interested in and motivated to becoming part of an APM
- Must, if a small rural hospital, be meeting the quality data reporting requirements of Inpatient Quality Reporting, Outpatient Quality Reporting or the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project
- Must not be a current participant in the Delta Region Community Health Systems Development Program, the Vulnerable Rural Hospital Project, the Small Rural Hospital Transition Project, or any other program that is duplicative in services
Applications are due August 15
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