Reported October 23, 2026: CMS announced $193.7 million in Rural Health Transformation Program awards to 45 Florida organizations. CMS says the work will use telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, pharmacy services, diagnostic kiosks, mobile health and community paramedicine to expand preventive, specialty and follow-up care closer to home. More than 500 partnerships are involved.

DomAfina’s take: Florida home health and home care agencies should ask state RHTP leaders or local hospital partners which awardee owns the last-mile workflow in each county. Bring a one-page service map: coverage, after-hours capacity, languages, referral response time and which remote-monitoring alerts your clinicians can safely close. Before accepting volume, settle consent, data exchange, escalation and payment. The funding headline is large; the opportunity belongs to agencies that can prove a reliable last mile.

Source reviewed: CMS: $193.7 Million for Rural Health Transformation in Florida. The source supports the reported update; the operational recommendations are DomAfina’s analysis.