Louisiana's Rural Health Transformation Program can fund your practice's move to value-based care. Equality Health helps you apply, build, and sustain it — provider-led and practical.
Louisiana's Department of Health has opened $30M in Rural Health Transformation funding through the Rural Medicaid Alternative Payment Model (APM) Program — one-time dollars that pay rural practices to build lasting value-based care. Awards run $100K–$2M per practice, and applications are due August 7, 2026.
Build the foundation.
Turn the foundation into recurring revenue.
Your application can include one or both lanes — or map a path from Lane 1 to Lane 2 to maximize your return. As your VBC partner, Equality Health knows the model and completes the paperwork for you.
You've already done the hard part — you're in the network. Your Provider Account Manager handles the rest: the APM enrollment, the grant paperwork, and the path to submission.
As an Equality Health partner, you already have CareEmpower®, wrap-around member engagement, hands-on practice support, and quarterly ECIP incentives working for your practice.
We enroll your practice in the Rural Medicaid APM (Lanes 1 + 2) and direct grant funds to infrastructure, workflow, staffing, and reporting. EH completes the application and all the paperwork for easy submission to LDH.
Stack your revenue: quarterly ECIP activity-based incentives paid by EH, LDH performance bonuses for hitting quality thresholds, and shared savings on total cost of care from LDH and MCOs.
Each package builds on the one before it. Leverage available LDH grant funds to transform your rural practice — from foundational readiness to full VBC accountability.
Package availability reflects cumulative scope. Investment amounts shown are per practice for Year 1 and may be refined during application.
The moment to move is now — while the grant window is open and before CMS value-based deadlines arrive.
Put Rural Health Transformation dollars to work now — before the grant window closes.
Establish healthy value-based workflows — and new revenue streams — well ahead of CMS 2030 deadlines.
Turn early action into better health outcomes and more resilient rural communities.
LDH requires a 10% investment match. Equality Health provides an alternative investment match — so your practice can participate without a big out-of-pocket cost, and you're reimbursed as LDH grant funds are disbursed.
Your Provider Account Manager will walk you through package selection, paperwork, and the path to submission — start to finish.
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