CMS's Planned State Initiatives vs RCJ

CMS vs RCJ

RCJ's numbers were close; its structure wasn't

• Funding: every RCJ state award was within 0.3% of CMS's Budget Period 1 figure, but rounded to the nearest million rather than exact.
• Initiatives: RCJ built its initiative lists from state narratives, so only 69 of CMS's 322 official names appeared, and 25 states matched none.
• Progress: RCJ showed four states as “Scaling”. CMS shows every initiative in every state at Stage 1 or 2 of 5.
• Policy commitments: CMS tracks 19 State Policy Actions per state; RCJ had none of them.
• Coverage: CMS's new deck places states in focus areas 1,553 times. RCJ holds source material for all but one: a Massachusetts digital health program CMS counts as a Tech Catalyst Fund. Seven programs CMS spotlights by name were checked individually; two had no RCJ record, one had no public source we could find (New Jersey's immunization system modernization), and the rest were tracked under different names.

CMS vs CMS

The deck disagrees with itself on 13 of 43 focus areas

Each focus area gives a headline state count, a shaded US map and subtopic lists naming the states. On 30 focus areas all three agree. On the rest they don't, by one to three states. Use the named states, not the headline totals.

Also: four subtopic counts on the deck's summary pages differ from its detail pages (Tribal-Specific Programs 8 vs 7, VA–Rural Provider Integration 5 vs 4, Clinical Training 22 vs 23, Allied Health 18 vs 17; the detail pages name the states), and Wisconsin's chronic disease spotlight misnames the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality.

All 43 focus areas

Planned work vs solicitations RCJ has tracked

For each focus area, the states CMS lists, split by whether RCJ has tracked a solicitation that funds that work there: open or announced, all closed, or none yet. Amber is planned work with no solicitation: the likeliest places for new ones. Click a bar to see the states and the actual opportunities behind it.

CMS initiatives

14 of 322 CMS initiatives still have no solicitation

Each state's CMS initiatives, checked against the solicitations that implement them. 69 have a solicitation open or announced and 225 have had one that has since closed. We researched every initiative left over: 14 are being carried out directly by the state or a named partner, so no solicitation is expected. These 14 remain: 2 with a solicitation expected, and 12 with no public sign yet of how they will be procured.

Announced, not yet open

23 solicitations to watch for

Including Massachusetts's Rural Digital Health Sandbox ↗: grants up to $475,000 for digital health companies, launched October 2026, with its notice of funding opportunity “coming soon”.

Deadlines

27 RHTP solicitations due in the next 30 days

The full, live list is on Opportunities.