Rural Health Transformation funding in Indiana
- First-year award
- $207M
- Reported put to work, as of Jul 31, 2026
- $203M
- 98% of the award
- This figure stops at Jul 31, 2026. CMS has announced more for Indiana since. See below.
- Application rounds open today
- 2
Rounds to look at
- Nov 16, 2026OpenRural GME Curriculum Enhancement GrantsIndiana RHTP / GROW
$150K. Up to $150,000 per approved residency program; about 15 awards anticipated.
Run by the Indiana Rural Health Association for the Indiana Department of Health. Due at 5 p.m. Eastern. The posted notice is still labeled draft.
Read the official notice ↗Checked Nov 9, 2026.
- Nov 16, 2026OpenRural GME Preceptor and Rural Track GrantsIndiana RHTP / GROW
$2.5M. Total available; up to $250,000 per legal organization.
Run by the Indiana Rural Health Association for the Indiana Department of Health. Due at 5 p.m. Eastern. The posted notice is still labeled draft.
Read the official notice ↗Checked Nov 9, 2026.
What the state review found, as of Nov 7, 2026
Two statewide Rural GME grants are open until November 16 at 5 p.m. Eastern: curriculum enhancement grants for residency programs, and preceptor and rural track grants for health care organizations. Indiana awarded its first regional GROW grants September 1.
Closed rounds (1)
- No date postedClosed
Where Indiana's money has gone so far
As Indiana reported it to CMS through Jul 31, 2026. These are commitments to agencies, contractors and partners, not a measure of what has reached patients.
- Prevention and chronic disease$129M
- Appropriate care availability$31.1M
- Workforce$21.4M
- IT advances$11.5M
- Program administration$5.3M
- Training and technical assistance$3.8M
- Fostering collaboration$81K
Initiative detail
Growing Care Coordination: Medical Operations Coordination Center and Alternate Payment Model Feasibility Study$14.1M
- $14.1MBuilding a 24/7 statewide Medical Operations Coordination Center to streamline patient transfers, emergency medical service (EMS) coordination and hospital capacity monitoring, as well as launching an Alternate Payment Model feasibility study to support sustainable rural care delivery. (Appropriate care availability)
Growing Community Connections through Indiana 211$636K
- $81KTechnical implementation support for hospital and healthcare provider integration activities. (Fostering collaboration)
- $554KSystem enhancements through State's software master agreement. (IT advances)
Growing Improved Patient Outcomes Through Enhanced Interoperability and Technology$10.9M
- $10.9MExpanding connections to the statewide Health Information Exchange so rural clinics, EMS, behavioral health and longtermcare providers can securely share patient information, reducing delays and improving care coordination. (IT advances)
Growing Pediatric & Obstetric Readiness in Rural Emergency Departments$13.9M
- $11.4MEquipping rural emergency departments and EMS teams with training, standardized protocols and readiness certification to reduce preventable child deaths and improve maternal outcomes amid rising obstetrics (OB) unit closures. (Appropriate care availability)
- $2.5MConducting OB and pediatric readiness needs assessment for pre-hospital EMS transport agencies via procured vendor to conduct assessments. Procure statewide software licensure for pediatric dosing technology and pediatric appropriate equipment for EMS agencies, including stocked equipment bags for EMS providers and training services. (Training and technical assistance)
Growing Cardiometabolic Health Standards of Care in Rural Indiana$8.5M
- $8.5MPromoting access to chronic disease prevention in rural communities through cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM) Centers of Excellence, nutrition and physicalactivity supports, Food is Medicine planning and broad Lifestyle Medicine workforce training. (Prevention and chronic disease)
Growing Access to Hospital Post-Discharge Medications$1.8M
- $1.8MRural hospitals receive planning grants and implementation funding to ensure patients leave with needed medications at outpatient prices, reducing readmissions and supporting safe transitions of care. (Appropriate care availability)
Growing Specialty Provider Access through Expanded Teleconsult Capabilities$92K
- $92KAssessing rural telehealth needs, launching regional pilots, and building statewide infrastructure to expand virtual care, reduce travel burdens, strengthen chronic disease management, and enable timely specialist support. (Appropriate care availability)
Growing Telehealth Access and Infrastructure$3.7M
- $3.7MAssessing rural telehealth needs, launching regional pilots, and building statewide infrastructure to expand virtual care, reduce travel burdens, strengthen chronic disease management, and enable timely specialist support. (Appropriate care availability)
Growing our Rural Health Paraprofessional Workforce$3.2M
- $3.2MDeveloping a statewide strategy to strengthen rural paraprofessional roles--such as community health workers--through employer support, workforce integration playbooks, rural healthcare academies and targeted recruitment and retention strategies. (Workforce)
Growing Clinical Training and Readiness$18.1M
- $18.1MProviding rural physician training pathways, increasing clinical rotation capacity, offering incentives for rural practice and precepting, and investing in maternalhealth training to address shortages and long travel distances for care. (Workforce)
Growing our Rural Behavioral Health Workforce$131K
- $131KProviding project management support implementation for Initiative 11 activities, ensuring alignment with IN behavioral health workforce strategy and grant and program administration. (Workforce)
Make Rural Indiana Healthy Again Regional Grants$122M
- $121MA five-year regional grant model designed to place local data, partnerships, and decision-making at the center of rural health transformation. (Prevention and chronic disease)
- $1.3MTechnical assistance support for eight rural regions to develop innovative and compliant proposals for the Growing Rural Opportunities for Wellbeing in Health (GROW) Regional Grants. (Training and technical assistance)
Program operations$5.3M
- $2.6MPersonnel, fringe, travel, and indirect costs for program-wide administrative staff. (Program administration)
- $2.6MProject management, Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program reporting and compliance, operational support, scopes of work drafting, and budgeting and financial tracking across all GROW Initiatives to assist in planning and implementation of Budget Period 1 (BP1) activities. (Program administration)
- $104KRHT Program-specific procurement and contracting activities. Funds provided to Indiana Department of Administrative Services via an interagency Memoranda of Understanding (MOU). (Program administration)
Source: RHTP Obligated Funds Report ↗
What CMS has announced for Indiana
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