A core service of the MT Flex Grant and Performance Improvement Network is to provide education on a variety of topics associated with our grant objectives. We provide a “Certificate of Completion” for most education events and when appropriate will also provide verification of hours for MT Board of Nursing Credits and Nursing Home Administrator credits.
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The Technical Assistance and Services Center (TASC), in coordination with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP), are pleased to the release of a new resource: The COVID-19 Funding Sources Impacting Rural Providers guide. This funding resource is intended to support rural health care providers, along with their state and local partners, navigate the availability of federal funds to support the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response and recovery efforts.
Seven tables, or matrices, are provided for quick reference at the beginning of this resource. The tables can be used to check eligibility of participation in funding sources by provider types: rural prospective payment system (PPS) and critical access hospitals (CAH), rural health clinics (RHC), federally qualified health centers (FQHC), long-term care (LTC) or skilled nursing facilities (SNF), tribal facilities, and emergency medical services (EMS). The tables also provide an at-a-glance view for each provider type sharing the different types of funds that may be accessed from various funding sources dependent on their participation eligibility. Each funding source is described in its own section of this resource with an executive summary followed by further detail on the use of funds, reporting requirements, hyperlinks to the legislation and detailed information.
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The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) is also pleased to announce a new COVID-19 Collection located on The Center’s website. This collection consists of trusted and reliable resources, such as the COVID-19 Funding Sources Impacting Rural Providers Guide listed above, along with standing links to additional organizations’ COVID-19 resources, FAQs, webinars, tools, and trainings. The Center aims to help direct the most up-to-date and relevant tools and resources to rural hospitals, clinics, and their communities. This Collection will be updated regularly to help assist with the abundance of circulating information relating to COVID-19.
The MT Flex Program has entered into an agreement with HealthTechS3 to provide Mock Survey services for up to 10 MT Critical Access Hospitals during the 2020-2021 Grant Year (September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021). Project details are attached.
The MT Flex Program will pay for the consulting fees for this survey and the MT CAH will be responsible to pay for consultant travel, lodging, et al. Details are defined in Expectations and Responsibilities in the attached.
Interested parties should complete the Application on page 3 and return to Lindsay Konen, Flex Program Specialist, via email at [email protected] or via fax at 406-457-8039 by August 20, 2020.
In case you missed it, the recording for the for the June 4th webinar, Montana Billing & Coding for Covid-19: Reporting Coronavirus Related Services Including Telemedicine is now available and can be found at the link below.
Recording : Click on link and click on the download icon in the upper right corner.
Slides Please note: Slides are only available to registered attendees of the class. After class, you may use them to help train your colleagues within your organization.
