US EditionEvery state has applied for $50B Trump administration rural health fund
The $50 billion program aims to improve rural health care access and quality nationwide, with funding allocated between fiscal years 2026 and 2030, CMS said.
- On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said all 50 states submitted applications for the multiyear $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, announced in Washington.
- As a legislative concession, lawmakers bundled the Rural Health Transformation Program into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to address Medicaid cuts, CMS confirmed last month.
- States were asked to design plans showing how they would expand access, enhance quality and improve outcomes, with Alabama's plan listing 11 initiatives including maternal and fetal simulation training and statewide EMS trauma and stroke programs.
- CMS will divide $25 billion equally between fiscal years 2026 and 2030, with awardees notified by Dec. 31, and the remaining half awarded through a merit-based review.
- Top Democrats raised alarms and sought a Government Accountability Office probe as Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator , and Tina Smith, U.S. Senator , warned of a `slush fund` favoring large health systems over small rural hospitals.
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Illinois awaits word on $1 billion in Big Beautiful Bill cash for rural hospitals – Crain’s
Illinois joined the rest of the U.S. today in applying for a piece of the $50 billion the federal government will allocate to rural health over the next five years, with a plan that seeks $1 billion. The $50 billion was a late addition to HR 1, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, following concerns that health care cuts in the GOP-led spending measure would hit rural hospitals particularly hard. CMS is set to decide on how the awards will …
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Beware of the rural hospital slush fund
Congress has handed hospital giants a new line of taxpayer-funded credit. This summer, Congress included a $50 billion “rural health fund” in the multitrillion-dollar One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The fund’s supporters are touting it as a lifeline for struggling community hospitals. But small-town emergency rooms will not be the primary beneficiaries. Instead, politically connected hospital systems that know how to game federal programs will clean…
Concerns over fairness, access rise as states compete for slice of $50 billion rural health fund
Amid public forums and local cries for help, states are also talking with large health systems, technology companies, and others amid intensifying competition for shares of a $50 billion fund to improve rural health.
All 50 states will vie for funds from $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program • Kentucky Lantern
Patients have their blood pressure checked and other vitals taken at an intake triage at a Remote Area Medical mobile dental and medical clinic on Oct. 07, 2023 in Grundy, Virginia. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — All 50 states have applied for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Thursday. States had from Sept. 15 through W…
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