Frontier Community Health Integration Project Technical Assistance, Tracking, and Analysis Program

his announcement solicits applications for Frontier Community Health Integration Project (FCHIP) Technical Assistance, Tracking, and Analysis (TA) Program.

The purpose of the FCHIP TA Program is to provide technical assistance to ten (10) critical access hospitals (CAHs) selected by the Centers

for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to participate in the FCHIP demonstration to test new approaches to health care delivery, reimbursement, and coordination in sparsely populated rural areas in three states:
Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota.

Technical assistance to the CAHs must include support for implementing one or any combination of three specific health care interventions:
(1) the waiver of the 35-mile rule for ambulance services, allowing cost-based reimbursement for ambulance services regardless of nearby providers; (2) the waiver of the fixed $25 originating site fee for telehealth services, instead allowing cost-based reimbursement for 101 percent of cost for overhead, salaries, fringe benefits, and the depreciation value of the telehealth equipment; and (3) the waiver of the 25-bed inpatient bed limit, allowing up to 10 additional beds to be used for skilled nursing facility (SNF)/nursing facility (NF) care.

Other technical assistance activities should include support for quality measurement and performance improvement projects, strategic planning to improve patients’ access to services, and other tracking, analytic, and administrative tasks as appropriate for the individual needs of the participating CAHs.

The FCHIP demonstration began operation as of August 1, 2016 under the administration of the CMS.

You can find more information on the FCHIP demonstration on the CMS website at https://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/Frontier-Community-Health-Integration-Project-Demonstration/.

The FCHIP TA Program is administered by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), located in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
Related Programs

Rural Health Research Centers

Department of Health and Human Services



Who's Eligible





Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Not Available

Additional Information of Eligibility:
Eligible applicants include public, private, and nonprofit organizations.

Faith-based and community-based organizations, tribes, and tribal organizations are eligible to apply.

Foreign entities are not eligible for HRSA awards, unless the authorizing legislation specifically authorizes awards to foreign entities or the award is for research.

This exception does not extend to research training awards or construction of research facilities.



Full Opportunity Web Address:


Contact:
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services AdministrationABeswick@hrsa.gov

Agency Email Description:
Contact Aaron Beswick at (301)945-9810 or email ABeswick@hrsa.gov

Agency Email:
ABeswick@hrsa.gov

Date Posted:
2016-12-08

Application Due Date:
2017-03-13

Archive Date:
2017-05-12


Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.






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