This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the National Organizations of State and Local Officials (NOSLO) Program:
Health Care Payment and Financing.
The purpose of this program is to assist states and local authorities in a) preserving and improving public health, b)
credit:
building capacity to address other public health matters and support and enforce health regulations, and c) preventing and suppressing communicable diseases.
To fulfill the program’s purpose, NOSLO:
Health Care Payment and Financing has the following objectives:
1) facilitate bidirectional communication and data/information-sharing between HRSA and state and/or local officials, 2) strengthen HRSA-funded programs by better understanding state and/or local stakeholder needs, priorities, and perspectives, and 3) support capacity-building activities at the state and/or local levels that strengthen the health care safety net and advance shared public health goals with HRSA.2 The term “capacity-building” includes actions that build, strengthen, and maintain the necessary competencies and resources needed to sustain or improve health services delivery to vulnerable and underserved populations.
Capacity-building activities supported through NOSLO:
Health Care Payment and Financing include technical assistance and training; data collection, sharing, and analysis; materials development; or other agreed-to actions that enable state and/or local organizations to operate in a comprehensive, responsive, coordinated, and effective manner.
Through NOSLO:
Health Care Payment and Financing, HRSA will provide support to an organization with a local, state, and national perspective on health care-related payment and financing for services delivered to vulnerable and underserved populations.
This track will increase the amount of high quality, impartial, policy analysis and policy-relevant research on care coordination, health care financing, health care quality initiatives, innovative care/payment models, and payment reform as it relates to the needs of the uninsured, underserved, vulnerable, and special populations of HRSA interest in states and local areas.