# Licensure Portability Grant Program

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/hrsa-24-011-licensure-portability-grant-program/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/349062

> Health Resources and Services Administration offered grants to state and local governments. It expected to make about 4 awards worth $500,000 in total. Applications closed on April 8, 2024.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | HRSA-24-011 |
| Agency | Health Resources and Services Administration |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | April 8, 2024 |
| Award ceiling | not stated |
| Award floor | not stated |
| Expected awards | 4 |
| Total funding | $500,000 |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 93.211 |

## Who can apply

- State governments
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Competing Continuation Applicants: Entities that are currently funded under HRSA-19-019 are eligible to apply as competing continuation applicants. New Applicants: Eligible applicants are state professional licensing boards including but not limited to organizations that are in consortia with or associations of state licensing boards that cooperate to develop and implement state policies that will reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telehealth.

## What the grant funds

This notice announces the opportunity to apply for funding under the Licensure Portability Grant Program (LPGP). The purpose of the LPGP is to provide support for state professional licensing boards to carry out programs under which licensing boards of various states cooperate to develop and implement state laws and related policies that will reduce statutory and regulatory barriers to telehealth. Telehealth is defined by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) as the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, health administration and public health. Technologies include video conferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless communications. This grant aligns with HRSA’s goals of fostering a health care workforce to address current and emerging needs, improving access to quality physical health and behavioral health services, achieving health equity, and enhancing population health. Promoting equity is essential to HRSA’s mission of protecting the health of Americans and providing essential human services. Telehealth expanded over the past decades and experienced significant growth during and since the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Coordinating care improved with the advancement and role of technology. Through telehealth technologies, a health care professional may deliver care from a distant site in a separate state from the patient’s originating site. This wide reach allowed telehealth to emerge as a promising modality for increasing physical health and behavioral health care access, especially in rural areas and communities with workforce shortages. While telehealth has the capacity to facilitate the delivery of health care over long distances, there may be statutory or regulatory barriers to delivering care across state lines. Licensure policies may differ from state to state, and individual states may require a license in the state where the patient is located. To address this, this program seeks to support innovative multi-state collaborations that will enable licensed health care professionals to provide telehealth across states (i.e., licensure portability).

## Questions people ask

### Is HRSA-24-011 still open?

No. It closed on April 8, 2024.

### Who can apply for Licensure Portability Grant Program?

Health Resources and Services Administration accepted applications from state and local governments. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Licensure Portability Grant Program?

Closed April 8, 2024. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

About $500,000 in total across about 4 awards.

### Who has won Telehealth Programs grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were JBS International, Inc., University of Mississippi Medical Center, The Medical University of South Carolina. The program made 539 awards worth $566 million in that time.