WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Susan Collins issued the following press release:
This week, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, intervened to preserve Maine's $190 million in first-year funding from the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP). This program is a $50 billion initiative to be awarded over five years that she proposed to support rural health care systems across the country.
Maine's funding was at risk of being rescinded and reallocated to other states because the state missed milestones and provided inadequate information to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on implementation of the $190 million award. Alerted by CMS that Maine's funding was in jeopardy, Senator Collins ...