FCC May 'Fully Fund' Rural Healthcare Providers in FY 18; Pai Says Some Used It Like 'Piggy Bank'
The FCC expects to "fully fund" all eligible rural healthcare provider requests for single-year support in funding year 2018 under its $581 million budget, Chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday at a Connected Care Health Conference in Boston. "Every rural clinic…
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or hospital seeking to lower its cost of service for this next year is eligible for full funding," he said. "We’re aiming to end waste, fraud and abuse in the program. Each program dollar that’s wasted is by definition a dollar that isn’t going to improve digital health. And unfortunately, some carriers have been treating the program as a piggy bank to be raided and haven’t been complying with our rules. To date, we’ve made real progress in rooting out this abuse, including by taking enforcement actions, and we’re not going to let up until the problem is solved."