Grant funding can open doors, but it can't close the gaps that form when revenue walks out the back door. In this follow-up episode of the EisnerAmper Healthcare Podcast, host Tony Davis continues the conversation with Jane Clark and Peter Avellino, shifting focus from grants to the operational and financial strategies rural hospitals need to build long-term resilience.

Peter shares how attribution models can reveal where patients are going after leaving a facility, and why that intelligence is a game-changer for rural providers whose patient populations are finite. The episode covers revenue cycle fundamentals (coding accuracy, timely billing, follow-up scheduling), 340B program eligibility, pharmacy benefit management optimization, and how AI-assisted tools are compressing the time between date of service and cash collected.

Jane connects the dots between grant strategy and revenue cycle improvement, making the case that federal programs like the Rural Health Transformation Program are increasingly designed to fund transformational infrastructure, including billing systems, data platforms, and workforce stabilization, rather than fill operating gaps. She closes with a direct message for rural and tribal health leaders: stop treating financing, operations, and compliance as separate conversations.

If your organization is navigating thin margins, workforce pressures, or the question of whether to convert to a rural emergency hospital model, this episode gives you a practical framework for thinking about what to do next.

Rural and tribal health organizations face a funding environment unlike any other, one shaped by sovereign government relationships, rapidly shifting federal priorities, and grant programs most organizations don't know exist. In this episode of the EisnerAmper Healthcare Podcast, host Tony Davis sits down with grants management professional Jane Clark and healthcare finance veteran Peter Avellino to unpack how rural hospitals and tribal health organizations can find and successfully access meaningful funding.

The conversation covers the landscape of rural hospital designations (critical access hospitals, sole community hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, and more), why each carries different reimbursement implications, and how those designations affect grant eligibility. Jane walks through the five major federal grant categories currently available to rural providers, including the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, HRSA rural health grants, and tribal-specific funding through Indian Health Services. She also shares a client story in which the right grant management support helped one organization grow from a single $250,000 federal grant to over $2 million across eight programs in just two years.

Whether you're a healthcare executive looking to diversify your organization's funding or a tribal health leader navigating the dual funding structure of Indian Health Services and Medicaid, this episode offers a grounded, practical starting point.

Healthcare organizations face mounting financial pressures, and grants can be one of the most powerful yet underutilized tools in their funding arsenal. In this episode, EisnerAmper's Tony Davis sits down with Angie Brown, who has extensive knowledge in grants management, to explore how healthcare clients can strategically identify, secure, and steward grant funding to advance their missions. From federal and state programs to private foundations, Angie breaks down the grants lifecycle, the three misconceptions that trip organizations up most, and timely opportunities like CMS's new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. Along the way she explains why winning the wrong grant can set you back, how AI is reshaping grants management, where compliance risk rivals a JCAHO shutdown, and the single first step, a gap analysis, every leader should take before pursuing a dollar. Whether you're new to grants or looking to strengthen your existing program at a hospital, health system, FQHC, or nonprofit, this conversation is packed with practical insight.