 | The Trump Administration has unveiled a two-track pilot program that will provide $75 million in "up-front funding" for 15 rural communities to transform their care delivery models. | | The volunteer Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model will pick 15 rural communities for its Community Transformation Track, which begins next summer. | | CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the agency was acting on an Aug. 3 executive order by President Donald J. Trump calling for a new model "to ensure that rural healthcare providers are able to provide the necessary level and quality of care." | | "This new model is appropriately called CHART, or the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model, because it charts a course to a sustainable healthcare delivery system in rural communities," Verma said at a media teleconference. |
Model participants would be held accountable for quality outcomes measured by total cost, admissions and ER visits, and other metrics that the community would pick. Read about CMS' new rural health efforts here: Related Coverage: - President Trump Signs Executive Order to Permanently Expand Telehealth Benefits for Medicare Recipients
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