Description
The Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is issuing this Request for Applications (RFA) to establish grant agreements with eligible subrecipients under Florida's Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). The RHTP is a five-year, federally funded initiative administered by AHCA under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Cooperative Agreement. This RFA is for the Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Initiative, which is designed to support rural healthcare providers in transitioning from fee-for-service reimbursement to performance-based payment models. The initiative will fund the organizational infrastructure, data systems, care coordination capabilities, and workforce capacity necessary for rural health providers to participate in VBP arrangements with Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). Key components of the program include VBP infrastructure development, population health and data infrastructure, care coordination infrastructure, and interoperability and HIE integration.
• Eligible applicants include rural health providers, regional collaboratives, and other eligible entities.
• The application must include a detailed project narrative, implementation work plan, and sustainability plan.
• The evaluation criteria include organizational capacity and eligibility, VBC infrastructure program narrative, collaboration and partnership plan, implementation work plan and technology plan, evaluation and reporting plan, and sustainability plan.
• The total funding available for this initiative is $10,000,000, with $2,253,940 allocated for the Northwest Super Region, $4,397,754 for the Northeast Super Region, $2,578,570 for the Southwest Super Region, and $769,736 for the Southeast Super Region.