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Maine Rural Medical Access Program

This funding record is inactive. Please see the program website or contact the program sponsor to determine if this program is currently accepting applications or will open again in the future.

Sponsors
Maine Bureau of Insurance, Maine Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Deadlines
May 3, 2023
Contact

Nicole Breton
207.287.5503
nicole.breton@maine.gov

Purpose

The Rural Medical Access Program (RMAP) offers financial incentives, in the form of reimbursement of insurance premiums, to ensure the availability of doctors who provide prenatal care and deliver babies in rural and underserved communities in Maine.

Priority is given to:

  1. Physicians whose practices are located in federally designated Medically Underserved Areas/Populations or Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas, who practice at least 50% of the time in underserved areas, and whose practice includes at least 10% MaineCare patient visits
  2. Physicians whose practices are not located in federally designated Medically Underserved Areas/Populations or Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas but are located in Primary Care Analysis Areas of under 20,000 population and at least 50% of visits are patients from federally designated underserved areas and/or MaineCare
Eligibility

To be considered for RMAP, physicians must be practicing in an underserved area of Maine, have performed deliveries and/or provided prenatal care and have malpractice insurance for prenatal care and/or obstetrical services between the dates of July 1 and December 31, 2022.

Geographic coverage
Maine
Amount of funding

At least $5,000 per physician.

Application process
Tagged as
Maternal health and prenatal care · Physicians · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Maine

Organizations (1)

  • Maine Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, view details



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