Rural Health Transformation Program tracker › Colorado
Colorado
Rural Health Transformation Program- Program
- Colorado
- First-year award
- $200,105,604 (CMS)
- Lead agency
- Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF)
- Program page
- hcpf.colorado.gov/rural-health-transformation-program
- Contact
- The program office's contact details
- Where the plan names technology
- Initiative 10 of Colorado's plan, "Expand Rural Telehealth and Technology Integration," covers eConsults, remote patient monitoring, a "statewide technology readiness assessment" and "cybersecurity and interoperability training to rural facilities." The plan does not name AI; the program's FAQs say "AI-enabled tools, subscription platforms, and other technology solutions are allowable when they directly support approved project activities."
- AI named in the plan
- Yes
- Funding rounds
- Awarded Rural Health Transformation Program request for applications; $160 million; opened Jun 23, 2026, deadline Aug 3, 2026; eligible: Lead applicants enrolled in Colorado Medicaid that are qualified rural health care providers in a rural or frontier county, or a third party with a letter of attestation
- Awards
- Sept 28, 2026: $169,587,181 to 91 applicants, approximately 250 projects. Grants in 52 rural or frontier counties and 3 rural census tract counties for telehealth and specialty care, including tele-ICU and telehospitalist services, remote patient monitoring, electronic health record modernization, shared technology platforms, digital health tools and prehospital blood transfusion. HCPF has since posted a list of awardees; neither the list nor the release names an AI project. Announcement
- Next
- CMS determines each state's fiscal 2027 award amount by Oct. 31, 2026. Colorado's grants are awarded annually, with the option for renewal each year for up to a five-year project period, and the FAQs say "the current expectation is that participation requires applying to the RFA issued in June 2026." Questions go to [email protected].
Sources: CMS, first-year awards, HCPF program page, Colorado's approved project narrative, HCPF FAQs, HCPF, applications open, HCPF, awards, HCPF, RHTP awardees, CMS, Colorado awards, CMS, notice of funding opportunity
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