$276,551,662
Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
to DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH HUMAN SERVICES
WORK BEGAN2025-10-01·LATEST ACTION2026-04-06·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2605SC5ADM_075
Award description
MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR 50 - FY 2026 - T19
Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.
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What the model surfaced from this award
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In plain English
Federal Medicaid entitlement funding for fiscal year 2026, supporting state health insurance for low-income beneficiaries.
Sub-sectors
medicaid-entitlementblock-grant
Why this matters
Medicaid covers ~75 million Americans; this obligation ensures continuity of health coverage for vulnerable populations across states.
Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-19. Cost: $0.002629.
Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 108 days
Other awards from this recipient
- 2026-04-06MEDICAID ENTITLEMENT FOR 50 - FY 2026 - T19$6.2B
- 2026-05-05TRANSFORMING RURAL HEALTHCARE IN SOUTH CAROLINA - SOUTH CAROLINA PROPOSES A BOLD AND COMPREHENSIVE RURAL HEALTH TRANSFORMATION (RHT) PLAN TO ADDRESS LONGSTANDING DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE ACCESS, QUALITY, AND OUTCOMES ACROSS ITS RURAL COMMUNITIES. WITH APPROXIMATELY 1.75 MILLION RESIDENTS—32.6% OF THE STATE’S POPULATION—LIVING IN RURAL AREAS, THE STATE FACES DISPROPORTIONATE RATES OF CHRONIC DISEASE, MATERNAL MORTALITY, AND LIMITED ACCESS TO CARE DUE TO PROVIDER SHORTAGES; AGING INFRASTRUCTURE; AND THE GEOGRAPHIC AND LOGISTICAL CHALLENGES INHERENT TO RURAL COMMUNITIES. SOUTH CAROLINA’S RHT PLAN IS DESIGNED TO TRANSFORM THE RURAL HEALTH CARE LANDSCAPE THROUGH FIVE INTEGRATED, OUTCOMES-DRIVEN INITIATIVES: CONNECTIONS TO CARE – EXPANDS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE BY IMPLEMENTING ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS, REMOTE PATIENT MONITORING, TELEHEALTH SERVICES AND A STATEWIDE RESOURCE DATABASE PLATFORM TO IMPROVE CARE COORDINATION AND ACCESS. LEVELING UP – SCALES SUCCESSFUL PILOT PROGRAMS STATEWIDE, FOCUSING ON CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT, PEDIATRIC CARE QUALITY, AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. WELLNESS WITHIN REACH – DEPLOYS MOBILE HEALTH UNITS, CRISIS RESPONSE TEAMS, AND POP-UP CLINICS TO BRING CARE DIRECTLY TO UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. SHORING UP TO SUSTAINABILITY – STRENGTHENS RURAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS THROUGH TARGETED INVESTMENTS IN WORKFORCE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION, FACILITY UPGRADES, AND PROVIDER TRAINING. TECH CATALYST FUND – SUPPORTS RURAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY STARTUPS AND COMMUNITY-BASED INNOVATIONS TO DRIVE LONG-TERM HEALTH AND ECONOMIC IMPROVEMENTS. LED BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, SOUTH CAROLINA’S PLAN AND ITS FIVE INITIATIVES, ALIGNS WITH THE RHT’S FIVE STRATEGIC GOALS: MAKE RURAL AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN, SUSTAINABLE ACCESS, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATIVE CARE, AND TECH INNOVATION. THE PROGRAM EMPHASIZES ONE-TIME, HIGH-IMPACT INVESTMENTS THAT REMOVE SYSTEMIC BARRIERS AND BUILD LONG-TERM CAPACITY, WITH A FOCUS ON IMPROVING CHRONIC DISEASE AND MATERNAL HEALTH OUTCOMES ACROSS ALL RURAL COUNTIES. TO IMPLEMENT THIS TRANSFORMATIVE VISION, SOUTH CAROLINA IS REQUESTING $1 BILLION IN FEDERAL FUNDING. THIS INVESTMENT WILL ENABLE THE STATE TO MODERNIZE RURAL HEALTHCARE INFRASTRUCTURE, EXPAND ACCESS TO ESSENTIAL SERVICES, AND BUILD A RESILIENT, SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THAT DELIVERS MEASURABLE IMPROVEMENTS IN HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.$200.0M
Sources
- USAspending.gov — all awards for this UEI →
- SAM.gov entity registration →
- Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier ASST_NON_2605SC5ADM_075.
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