To satisfy Republicans opposed to last summer's cuts to health care, the Trump administration launched an ambitious 5-year ...
Federal dollars arrive at a critical moment for rural hospitals facing workforce shortages and financial instability.
It's still unclear where exactly the Rural Health Transformation Program money is going, a concern rural independent ...
The rising cost of delivering care to rural Americans is only one part of the story. What matters most to patients, and to those of us who have spent our careers caring for them, is getting care when ...
CMS has formally established the Office of Rural Health Transformation within the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, creating a permanent home for the federal government’s $50 billion Rural Health ...
Connecticut officials are hoping the state is allotted a piece of a $50 billion federal grant to improve health care and access in rural parts of the state. Rural hospitals and health clinics across ...
Some lawmakers and rural health care providers are concerned about the details of the state's application for federal rural ...
State officials have set five-year benchmarks for the program, including a 10% reduction in emergency room visits, a 10% ...
Rural hospitals facing cuts in Medicaid will struggle to figure out how to stay open in the coming years, experts said during a recent rural summit. Although rural hospitals are working to find ways ...
Pennsylvania has big plans for its $193 million award from a federal rural health fund, including investments in telehealth, recruiting health care workers and supporting ambulance services. But the ...
Kennedy was referring to the Rural Health Tranformation Program, which is arguably the most significant one-time investment in rural health funding. But that doesn’t speak to what rural hospitals are ...
Still, analysts note that the fund’s $50 billion is far smaller than the $911 billion in federal Medicaid spending that the ...