On Monday, we shared preliminary details on the funds awarded to each of the 50 states as part of the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, which is meant to help develop strategies for disease prevention and management, substance use disorder, and mental health care over the next five years. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a new summary providing more details on each state’s plan. States will receive first-year awards from CMS, averaging $200 million within a range of $147 million to $281 million. In addition, CMS announced the formation of the Office of Rural Health Transformation within the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.
You can read the updated summary here.
As we noted on Monday, NCPA worked with our partners to encourage the governors of all 50 states to leverage pharmacists in the programs and proposals when applying to the RHT program. To help states procure the required evidence-based data to support inclusion of pharmacy services in their RHT applications, NCPA launched a community pharmacy research library, which includes published papers, outcome metrics, payment and policy analyses, and implementation tools that can be cited in the state proposals.
