Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project

In 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the nation's largest health payer, set the goal of transitioning all Medicare beneficiaries and a majority of Medicaid beneficiaries into a value-based care (VBC) model. 

The shift from a traditional fee-for-service model focused on volume to a VBC model focused on patient health outcomes leads to prevention-based patient services, increased patient engagement and satisfaction, reduced effects and incidence of chronic disease, improved quality of care, and lower costs for both patients and payers. 

The Rural Healthcare Provider Transition Project (RHPTP), which began in 2020, provides direct support to five small rural hospitals and certified rural health clinics annually, to help them strengthen their organization's understanding of VBC and learn strategies they can use to be effective participants in a health care system focused on value. 

We have really enjoyed every meeting and interaction with RHPTP staff and consultants! I have learned a lot and will always treasure this experience in making our hospital a better place for our patients.

Electra Hospital District, Electra, Texas

Project participants receive a range of virtual and on-site technical assistance, consultation, and coaching around organizational operations, readiness for assuming financial risk, and quality improvement in the areas of efficiency, building infrastructure to embed improvement into everyday practice, patient experience, or safety of care; participation in a learning collaborative; and post-project progress calls. 

Twenty additional RHPTP-eligible organizations are selected each year to receive support through participation in a virtual Learning Collaborative.

All RHPTP-eligible organizations are invited to participate in the Health Education Learning Program (HELP) webinar series.

RHPTP is supported through a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy and administered by the National Rural Health Resource Center.