Rural Healthcare Transformation Program
Your Share of $50B is On the Line
RHTP State Application Deadline is November 5, 2025
Your state must submit a successful application by November 5, 2025, and they cannot do it effectively without the expertise and data of essential partners like you. Behavioral health providers are already delivering on the core RHTP objectives. Act now to engage state officials, provide them with your proven data, and ensure your successful care models are built into the official plan before the state’s strategy is finalized. Download our pre-drafted letter template immediately to ensure your voice is heard before this critical advocacy window closes.
Download Letter Template NowWhat is the Rural Health Transformation Program?
The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), authorized by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), is a $50 billion federal initiative designed to fundamentally reshape and revitalize healthcare access, quality, and outcomes across rural America.
This program allocates $10 Billion annually to approved States from Fiscal Year 2026 through 2030. While only states can apply, this funding is intended to support innovative models, infrastructure improvements, and care coordination through partnerships with providers like yours.
RHTP Key Strategic Goals & How Behavioral Health Aligns
Improve disease prevention, chronic disease management, and behavioral health outcomes using evidence-based, outcomes-driven interventions.
You deliver it: Integrated care, MAT for SUD, crisis response, and preventative mental health services.
What's Considered Rural?Help rural providers become long-term access points by improving efficiency and financial sustainability.
You provide it: Cost-effective, community-based care that reduces costly ER visits and hospital stays.
Attract and retain a high-skilled healthcare workforce in rural and underserved communities.
You build it: Successful recruitment/retention models (e.g., CCBHCs) and training for specialized staff (e.g., peers, SUD counselors).
Foster the use of innovative technologies that promote efficient care delivery and patient access to digital health tools.
You use it: Telehealth, remote monitoring, health information exchanges (HIEs), and cybersecurity platforms.
Why Behavioral Health is Essential: Immediate Benefits for Your Organization
Behavioral health and human services agencies are uniquely positioned as the essential component of any successful RHTP strategy. Your state is currently drafting its application—a process that requires stakeholder engagement. This is your critical, short-term opportunity to leverage your proven data and successful community-based models, guaranteeing that your organization’s needs are factored into the final funding allocation plan. The state’s deadline is November 5th, but your chance to influence that plan is right now.
Access New Funding Streams
Position your agency to receive crucial sub-awards or subcontracts from your state’s allocation for new programs, technology, and workforce development.
Influence Your State’s RHT Plan
By engaging now, you can encourage your state to incorporate your successful, evidence-based care models (like CCBHCs or OTPs) into its official RHT plan.
Showcase Success
This is a clear opportunity to present your data on care coordination, quality metrics, and improved outcomes, validating your vital role in the rural health ecosystem.
How to Engage and Advocate for Your Agency
Don’t wait for the state to call you. Proactive engagement ensures your services, expertise, and client needs are prominently featured in the state’s proposal.
Download the free, pre-drafted funding letter template below.
Download Letter TemplateCustomize the template by including your organization’s name, contact information, and specific examples of success (e.g., “Our mobile crisis teams have reduced local hospital psychiatric readmissions by 15% in the last year”).
Send the letter to your state’s RHTP contact or relevant state agency director. Follow up with a phone call or email to offer your services, data, and insights to strengthen the state’s application.
Explicitly let your state know how your agency is already meeting RHTP statutory objectives, such as:
- Behavioral Health Integration (co-location with PCPs)
- Care Coordination (reducing hospital transfers)
- Rural Outreach (mobile units, community health workers)
State-by-State Funding Variability
The RHT Program funding is unique because half of the total allocation is based on the quality and content of the state’s plan, which considers factors like rural population and the proportion of rural health facilities.
This means each state has significant discretion over how the RHTP is structured, managed, and who receives funding (sub-awards). A governor may designate a Department of Health, a Department of Human Services, or another lead agency to submit the application.
Your engagement with the correct state RHTP contact is essential to ensure behavioral health is not overlooked.
Expert Tip: Check with your Governor’s office or state health department immediately to identify the specific RHTP contact or lead agency responsible for developing and submitting the state application. Time is running out to shape their final proposal!
How Qualifacts Can Help Support Your RHTP Goals
The key to state-level advocacy is demonstrable, measurable impact. Our comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) and data platforms provide the evidence you need to strengthen your state’s application.
Track Your Impact
Use Qualifacts to seamlessly document and quantify key RHTP metrics like care coordination activities, outcomes of behavioral health integration models, and success of your rural outreach programs.
Generate RHTP-Ready Reports
Quickly produce metrics that show your agency’s clear alignment with RHTP objectives, including quality measures, treatment outcomes, and utilization data that supports your role as a value-based partner.
Share Your Success
Utilize easily digestible data from your EHR to highlight compelling success stories and outcomes with state RHTP contacts, directly strengthening their application and your position as an indispensable sub-awardee.
