OHA outlines HR1 Rural Health plan, budgets $200M assumption and readies partner engagement

Claire Pierce Grobel, director of the Health Policy and Analytics Division at the Oregon Health Authority, told the Interim Committee on Health Care on Nov. 18 that Oregon has submitted an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the HR1 Rural Health Transformation Program, a five'year cooperative agreement that depends on annual performance reporting to CMS.

Grobel said the federal notice of funding opportunity allotted $50 billion across states, with half of that split equally among approved states and a second portion allocated for workload. OHA said the application followed CMS'requested assumptions that would have yielded a baseline of roughly $100 million per state per year and that Oregon budgeted the application using a $200 million annual framework as the equal'split illustrative figure, while cautioning the final award would…