Rural Health Transformation Program · State Procurement & Funding Profile
Hawaii's approximately $188.9M Rural Health Transformation Program award — the administering agency, the state's stated focus areas, and where to watch for procurements for vendors, providers, and consultants tracking the program.
Hawaii’s official RHTP hub →
Hawaii's award is approximately $188.9 million in Year-1 funding, its share of the federal $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. CMS structures the program over five years, with a Year-1 allocation followed by additional annual funding across the period. Hawaii's detailed Year-1 versus five-year budget structure is set out in the state's CMS-approved application and budget narrative.
Hawaii's program is administered by the Hawaii Department of Health, through its Office of Primary Care and Rural Health. Program contact is doh.opcpdh@doh.hawaii.gov, and program information is published on the state's engagement hub.
Based on the state's published focus areas, Hawaii's plan centers on Native Hawaiian health hubs and tele-robotic surgery — signaling an emphasis on culturally grounded rural care delivery and on extending specialty surgical capacity to remote and island communities. Fuller detail on the plan's priorities and initiatives is published on the state's RHTP hub.
The focus areas on record for Hawaii are Native Hawaiian health hubs and tele-robotic surgery. The state has not yet published a detailed public initiative-by-initiative budget breakdown in the primary sources reviewed; the full allocation is set out in Hawaii's CMS-approved budget narrative, and specific spending categories will surface as the state posts them to its hub.
As of this writing, Hawaii has not published a dedicated RHTP funding or RFP portal in the primary sources reviewed, and no live solicitations are on record on record. Procurements, NOFOs, and awards will be tracked here as the state posts them; the state's engagement hub is the primary place to watch for the first opportunities.
There are no confirmed application windows, technical-assistance calls, or webinar dates for Hawaii on record yet. Key upcoming deadlines will surface first in the dated activity log as the state publishes them, and on the state's RHTP hub.
The Rural Health Transformation Program was created by Section 71401 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (2025) and is administered federally by CMS. Hawaii administers its award through the Hawaii Department of Health under its CMS-approved application. No additional Hawaii-specific enabling statute is named in the primary sources reviewed.
Eligibility is expected to run on two tracks. Direct-to-state contracts go out as competitive RFPs, where firms bid as prime contractors. Subgrants and subawards flow to rural providers — hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, FQHCs, Native Hawaiian and Tribal health organizations, EMS agencies, and counties — and it is here that technology vendors and consultants most often engage as subcontractors or implementation partners. Until Hawaii posts its first solicitations, the best move is to monitor the state's engagement hub and reach the Department of Health's Office of Primary Care and Rural Health directly.
Independent reference profile compiled and maintained by Civic Operator LLC from primary sources (CMS, Hawaii .gov program and procurement pages, the Governor's newsroom) and the Rural Health Transformation Grant Tracker. Official-source data and dispatch links refresh nightly; profiles are regenerated weekly from the latest reporting and changes reviewed before publication. Last reviewed 2026-07-30. · Methodology & sources · All states