FCC Issues Collection Instructions for the Healthcare Connect Fund

In this Public Notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) and the Office of the Managing Director (OMD) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) provide instructions to the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) regarding collections for the new Healthcare Connect Fund, pursuant to the Commission’s directives in the December 2012 Healthcare Connect Fund Order. The Bureau and OMD also instruct USAC not to consider excess collections for rural health care support when making its overall universal service fund (USF) demand projections.