The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking part in the Connected Care Pilot Program that will make available up to $100 million to be committed over a three-year funding period. This program will help health care providers for qualifying costs of providing connected care services with a primary focus on serving low-income or veteran patients. The Connected Care Pilot Program is limited to public and nonprofit eligible health care providers. The pilot plans to cover 85% of the eligible costs of broadband connectivity, network equipment, and information services necessary to provide connected care services to the intended patient population. Eligible health care providers that are selected will be required to conduct a competitive procurement process for eligible services and network equipment. They will submit a funding request to the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) in order to receive a funding commitment for eligible services and network equipment.  After receiving a funding commitment, the service provider, in conjunction with the health care provider, will be required to submit an invoicing form (FCC Form 463) and supporting documentation in order to receive reimbursement for eligible expenses and services. 

Value Widelity can Provide

The application for the Connected Care Pilot Program is not yet available. At this time, applicants can prepare for the program application. Widelity is a leading provider of consulting services in Governmental Compliance and we have extensive experience working with the FCC. Widelity can help you in preparing for the application, creating estimated project budgets for eligible services and equipment and completing FCC Form 460 for eligibility and Form 462 to receive funding. There are additional reporting requirements through the pilot program that Widelity would be happy to assist you with. 

For more information on how we can support you please contact us at info@widelity.com