FCC Announces Increase in Rural Health Care Program Funds for FY 2020

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau directed the Universal Service Administrative Company, which administers the FCC’s Rural Health Care Program, to carry forward up to $197.98 million in unused funds from prior funding years to the extent necessary to satisfy funding year 2020 demand for the Program. The Rural Health Care Program funding cap for funding year 2020 is $604.76 million. But with this announcement, the total amount of support available to eligible health care providers for funding year 2020 will be $802.74 million, the most in the Program’s history.