Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program

Tap into the $50B RHT funding and help drive lasting change in the communities you serve. 

The Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program was authorized by the One Big Beautiful Bill and aims to empower states to strengthen rural communities across America by improving healthcare access, quality, and outcomes by transforming the healthcare delivery ecosystem.

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The $50B Opportunity

RHT Program funding is $50 billion to be allocated to approved States over five fiscal years, with $10 billion of funding available each fiscal year, beginning in fiscal year 2026 and ending in fiscal year 2030. Applications for the 1st budget period will open on a state-by-state basis beginning in the Spring 2026, with awardees being notified near the end of Summer 2026.

Funding must be used for specific use cases, such as:

    • Developing integrated care models (e.g., hub-and-spoke) that enable rural providers to become sustainable access points by improving efficiency and coordinating operations, technology, and care delivery through collaboration with regional models
    • Providing technical assistance, software, and hardware for significant information technology advances designed to improve efficiency, enhance cybersecurity capability development, and improve patient health outcomes.
  • Promoting evidence-based, measurable interventions to improve prevention and chronic disease management, and more {hyperlinke and more to the full list at the bottom of the page}
  • Transitioning organizations from volume-based to value-based care through voluntary, innovative care and payment models that enhance care coordination, reduce costs, and improve health outcomes.
  • Recruiting and retaining clinical workforce talent to rural areas, with commitments to serve rural communities for a minimum of 5 years

Strengthen Your Application with a Proven Partner

From application to approval, we have a proven track record of success in securing funding for clients nationwide. The right partner can make or break your application strategy. 

 Track record of success: 

$3B+
more than $3 billion in funding secured for client across the nation
50%
of NY entities engaged CHS as tech advisor during DSRIP waiver
95%
application success rate for technical assistance funding in California

From Application to Transformation: How We Can Help

Workforce Development: Creating Scalable Capacity

    • We design and implement scalable workforce development programs, training Navigators, Community Health Workers, Medical Assistants, and Advanced Practice Providers. For rural providers facing workforce shortages, this creates a sustainable pipeline of skilled talent to expand access and support team-based care.
    • We directly recruit, hire, and deploy Community Health Workers, Navigators, and other critical support staff into the communities and programs where they are needed most. By taking on onboarding, payroll, and day-to-day management, we remove the operational strain on providers, a major advantage for rural organizations that need to expand capacity quickly but lack the infrastructure to recruit and manage additional staff.

Proprietary Analytics Platform: Powering Rural Health Transformation

    • Our AI-powered ARC population health platform enables providers to improve quality outcomes while maximizing financial performance. ARC establishes the infrastructure and resources rural providers need to manage highly complex patients and various payment models.
    • ARC transforms analytics into real-time, AI-driven workflows, patient action items, and decision support, enabling care teams to act quickly and efficiently. For rural providers, this means doing more with fewer resources, reducing administrative burden and provider workload while ensuring no care gap is missed.
    • Our integrated care management and direct patient messaging capabilities strengthen patient engagement and streamline coordination across the care continuum. This is critical in rural communities, where geographic barriers and access challenges make consistent communication and coordination harder to achieve.

State and Federal Programming Expertise: Helping You Win

    • With deep experience in state and federal initiatives, we help organizations access new funding streams tied to quality and performance improvement. Rural providers benefit directly by capturing revenue and grant opportunities, such as the Rural Health Transformation Grant, strengthening financial stability in resource-constrained environments.

Integrated Care Models: Improve Health Outcomes

    • We have extensive experience building clinically integrated networks and hub-and-spoke models that connect FQHCs, hospitals, clinics, and community-based organizations into coordinated networks. For rural providers, this expands access to specialty care, strengthens referral pathways, and enables collaboration that would otherwise be difficult due to geographic isolation.
    • By aligning clinical, operational, and financial strategies, we drive meaningful improvements in outcomes and long-term revenue growth. This ensures rural providers can remain viable, competitive, and responsive to the needs of their communities over time.
 


Funding Use Cases

Funding must be used for one or more of the following:

    • Promoting evidence-based, measurable interventions to improve prevention and chronic disease management.
    • Providing payments to health care providers for the provision of health care items or services, as specified by the Administrator.
    • Promoting consumer-facing, technology-driven solutions for the prevention and management of chronic diseases.
    • Providing training and technical assistance for the development and adoption of technology-enabled solutions that improve care delivery in rural hospitals, including remote monitoring, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies.
    • Recruiting and retaining clinical workforce talent to rural areas, with commitments to serve rural communities for a minimum of 5 years.
    • Providing technical assistance, software, and hardware for significant information technology advances designed to improve efficiency, enhance cybersecurity capability development, and improve patient health outcomes.
    • Assisting rural communities to right size their health care delivery systems by identifying needed preventative, ambulatory, pre-hospital, emergency, acute inpatient care, outpatient care, and post-acute care service lines.
    • Supporting access to opioid use disorder treatment services (as defined in section 1861(jjj)(1)), other substance use disorder treatment services, and mental health services.
    • Developing projects that support innovative models of care that include value-based care arrangements and alternative payment models, as appropriate.

    • Additional uses designed to promote sustainable access to high quality rural health care services, as determined by the Administrator.