The funding ends. The contract stays.

Rural Health Transformation Program investment pays for infrastructure and access. On its own it settles nothing about whether the underlying payer contracts can sustain what that investment builds.

What HealthPulse looks at.

The sustainability gap

HealthPulse finds the distance between program funding and contract performance. That is the risk that appears once time-limited funding declines or expires.

RHTP-funded states

Montana, Idaho, South Dakota, Pennsylvania and Kentucky are among the states receiving RHTP funding.

Based on public program data.
When to start

A new CEO in the first 90 days, or a hospital reassessing contracts after a Medicare Advantage exit. A rural engagement begins at Validate, a bounded review of whether the evidence supports going further.

Capability

Rural Medicaid Sustainability and RHTP Advisory

Payer-contract benchmarking and reimbursement sustainability analysis for Critical Access Hospitals.

Read the capability
Method

The Boaz Model

A stage-gated engagement structure with a bounded scope and a valid stopping point at every stage.

How engagements run

Bring the contract question you have been putting off.

Twenty minutes and a rough sense of the payer mix is usually enough to tell whether there is something worth looking at.

Discuss a decision