Opportunity Overview
The Kansas Rural Health Transformation Plan Evidence-Based Practice Program is an active provider-participation and payment program administered by the University of Kansas Health System Care Collaborative Association for KDHE. It is not a competitive RFA. The program helps eligible rural hospitals and clinics build and maintain infrastructure needed to implement evidence-based practices and report required quality measures.
Year 1 Payments
Eligible rural Kansas hospitals receive a $100,000 infrastructure payment, and eligible rural Kansas clinics receive a $50,000 infrastructure payment, after satisfying the Participation Agreement and attestation requirements. Hospitals can receive an additional $50,000 reporting incentive, and clinics an additional $25,000, for completing the Year 1 documentation and reporting requirements.
Current Timing
To receive the Year 1 incentive payment, the provider must submit the required participation documentation, including the completed Attestation Form, by October 1, 2026, then report July, August, and September performance-measure data through QHi by October 31, 2026. The latest linked EBP Program Administrative FAQ, dated July 14, 2026, states that the Year 1 infrastructure payment remains available if required documentation and the Attestation Form are submitted by September 1, 2027. The current Care Collaborative EBP landing page separately displays October 1, 2027. Atlas is using the earlier September 1, 2027 date as the conservative control until the program reconciles that discrepancy.
Eligible Providers
Eligibility includes qualifying rural Kansas hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, certain rural Federally Qualified Health Center sites, Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers, and qualifying full-time rural primary-care physician practices, subject to the detailed rural-location, licensure, operating-hours, Medicare-enrollment, and program requirements in the controlling documents.
Allowable Infrastructure and N9+ / QC Analysis
KDHE’s FAQ expressly says infrastructure payments are intended to compensate provider investments needed to implement and sustain evidence-based practices. It notes that providers may need additional staff and may make investments in technology or data infrastructure to support expanded quality-improvement activities. Hospital performance measures include chest pain, stroke, sepsis, diabetes discharge, heart-failure discharge, ED arrival to qualified medical-provider contact, and medication reconciliation.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 88/100. N9+ Vendor Fit: 82/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 55/100. The opportunity can support technology when an eligible provider can truthfully tie it to its evidence-based-practice workflows, data collection, quality improvement, or access model. N9+ should not be treated as automatically allowable or force-fit into every provider’s attestation. Dr. Miltie is not the eligible participant, so this is a Path B applicant-side opportunity rather than Path A.
Provider Requirements
Participation requires the applicable Care Collaborative Participation Agreement and HIPAA Business Associate Agreement, W-9, banking information, at least two responsible contacts, the QHi participation and training process, required attestations, and performance reporting. Provider participation does not commence until the required signatures and documentation are received.
Next Steps
Eligible rural providers should confirm their eligibility and existing participation status first, then map any technology or implementation investment directly to the infrastructure tasks and evidence-based-practice measures they are actually implementing. Atlas should pursue N9+ or QC only where an applicant-specific workflow makes the technology materially relevant and defensible.
Verified source: UKHS Care Collaborative — EBP Program Administrative FAQs, July 14, 2026.