All 50 states will receive grants under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) new Rural Health Transformation Program designed to modernize health care in rural communities. The program wants states to expand more affordable treatment alternatives, like shifting from emergency care to more "treat-in-place" options that would save on costly ambulance and emergency room visits or even telehealth options.
They had some wonderful ideas, including, for example, in Alaska, which is a big state, it's hard to deliver medications. They're going to use drones to do that. In some parts of the southeast, they want to use robotic ultrasound devices to see how a pregnant woman is doing if she lives in a rural area and can't get to a doctor. These ideas were an effort by us to pull out the best thoughts possible, and it's working.
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