Community Health Grant grant funds, supported through the North Carolina General Assembly, are for assuring access to primary and preventive care to meet the health needs of vulnerable, underserved and medically indigent patients, with emphasis on providing primary and preventative medical services to uninsured or medically indigent patients.
Donor Name: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
State: North Carolina
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/02/2022
Size of the Grant: $150,000
Grant Duration: 1 year
Details:
Primary care safety net organizations that currently provide primary and preventative health care for underserved and medically indigent patients in North Carolina are eligible to apply for this funding to pay for patient care through encounter-based reimbursement (Track A) or through reimbursement for eligible expenses (Track B). Telehealth services and equipment are eligible expenses in both tracks. Applicants must select ONE track.
Track A: Encounter-based reimbursement. Payment per patient encounter for low-income, uninsured, and underinsured residents, who do not have health care coverage or access to primary health care services. Visits are reimbursable for medically necessary, on-site, face-to-face provider encounters. Face-to-face encounters may also include telehealth patient encounters with a provider. Indirect costs are not eligible.
NOTE – Per the Free Clinics Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Program Policy Guide, grant funding that applies to reimbursement, payment, or compensation for the delivery of health services to patients falls within the statutory prohibition, while grant funding that is not intended for or applied to this purpose does not. Free clinics who are FTCA recipients that choose a “per encounter’ reimbursement methodology may void their FTCA liability protection.
Track B: Reimbursement for eligible expenses. Payment may include salary/fringe for clinical staff, medical/office supplies and equipment, and capital expenses, including equipment for telehealth services. Indirect costs are not eligible.
Funding Information
Applicants may request up to $150,000 per year of the grant.
Funding Availability
Funding requests are contingent upon availability of program funding. Highest scoring applicants will receive a three-year award based on applicant scores. ORH anticipates that approximately 31 applicants will receive three-year funding. Successful applicants will be required to attend a grant award workshop.
Proposed Project Period
State Fiscal Year 2024: July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Eligibility Criteria
All primary care safety net organizations that currently provide direct primary and preventive care and serve as a medical home are eligible to apply. This includes:
- Federally Qualified Health Centers and Look-Alikes (FQHCs),
- Free and Charitable Clinics,
- Health Departments,
- Non-Profit, Hospital-Owned Primary Care Clinics,
- Rural Health Centers,
- School-Based and School-Linked Health Centers,
- AHEC Clinics,
- Other Non-Profit Community Organizations that provide direct primary and preventive patient care to low-income, uninsured, underinsured and medically vulnerable populations.
- Only one application can be submitted per eligible organization. An eligible organization must submit one application rather than applications by service site, “doing business as” or under separate EINs that are all connected to the same eligible organization.
Eligible organizations that currently provide direct primary and preventive care may use these funds to support any of the following:
- Health promotion, health maintenance, health counseling,
- Disease prevention,
- Patient education,
- Diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic illnesses,
- Integrated care services (dental, pharmacy, behavioral health, care coordination/care management by a primary care entity),
- Women’s health, maternal and child health that supports health care services in a primary care setting,
- Collaborative, community-based, whole person-centered health care delivery models,
- Telehealth patient care,
- Community health workers.
For more information, visit Community Health Grant.
