US EditionApplications for ‘big beautiful’ rural health fund open for states
States can apply for $50 billion over five years to innovate rural healthcare and address financial losses affecting 48% of rural hospitals, officials announced.
- The White House announced on Monday that states can now apply for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund over five years.
- This fund was created amid Medicaid cuts signed into law in July, which risk reducing $137 billion in rural health spending, leaving rural hospitals financially vulnerable.
- States must submit applications by November 5 to compete for annual awards of $10 billion, allocated partly equally and partly by CMS’s discretionary evaluation of rural needs.
- NRHA CEO Alan Morgan warned many rural hospitals face closure before improvements occur, while Louisiana’s Rural Hospital Coalition director Jeff Reynolds called the fund a unique federal investment.
- The program aims to improve long-term rural health care access, infrastructure, and innovation, though concerns remain about whether it can offset Medicaid cuts and sustain rural hospitals.
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Rural hospitals evaluating budgets and services amid Medicaid cuts
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Virginia MercuryVirginia, other states can now tap into $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund
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The White House Rolls Out Rural Health Funding as Trump’s Tax Cuts Threaten to Hit Hospitals
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