KRHOP:  Kansas Rural Health Options Project

Kansas FLEX (Critical Access Hospital) Program

 

The Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (FLEX) Program is a federal initiative that provides funding to State Governments to strengthen rural health. The program allows small hospitals the flexibility to be relicensed as Critical Access Hospital (CAHs), and to receive cost-based reimbursement for Medicare inpatient and outpatient services.  FLEX grants to the states also provide funding for:

• development of rural health networks

• integration of Emergency Medical Services into the rural health care delivery system. and

• support of quality and performance improvement initiatives among rural hospitals and networks.

The FLEX program in Kansas is supported by the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant (CFDA 93.241) from the Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration.  The Bureau of Local and Rural Health (BLRH) in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) administers the FLEX grant.  The grant program is managed through a public/private collaboration known as the Kansas Rural Health Options Project, a partnership of BLRH, the Kansas Hospital Association, the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services and the Kansas Medical Society.

Please visit the Kansas Rural Health Options Project website for more information.