Rural Health Innovation and Transformation Technical Assistance

For programmatic or technical questions:
Lawrencia Afagbedzi
301.443.3196
lafagbedzi@hrsa.gov

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Kimberly Dews
301.443.0655
kdews@hrsa.gov

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The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy will contract with a single organization to provide technical assistance (TA) for rural stakeholders. The goal is to support rural healthcare through innovative payment models and promote the value-based care landscape in the context of rural healthcare.

Value based care strategies include:

• Increasing the number of beneficiaries in a care relationship with accountability for quality and total cost of care
• Advancing health equity by increasing focus on underserved populations
• Supporting care innovations that enable integrated, person-centered care
• Improving access by addressing affordability
• Engaging partners and beneficiaries to achieve system transformation

The purpose of the program is to provide a mechanism for the federal government to work collaboratively with rural healthcare stakeholders to:

• Raise awareness of the unique considerations facing rural providers and communities in implementing equitable value-based care in the current and emerging environments, with a focus on the strategic areas identified above
• Enable rural stakeholders to understand value-based care models in both the public and the private sector, the rural relevance of these models, and their options for participation. Help rural providers and other rural stakeholders find and apply strategies to support rural participation in value-based care.
• Provide resources, analysis, and other TA that is nationwide in scope, meaning that the focus of this award is to reach a broad set of rural stakeholders across the country as opposed to limiting the focus on one particular state, region, provider type, model, or program

Eligible applicants include:

• Domestic public, private, for-profit, and nonprofit organizations
• Faith-based and community-based organizations
• Tribes
• Tribal organizations

Award ceiling: $500,000 per year
Project period: 4 years
Estimated number of awards: 1

Links to the full announcement, application instructions, and the online application process are available through grants.gov.

Applicant webinar recording