Some Republican state lawmakers and health associations are pushing back against spending plans under the Trump administration's $50 billion federal rural health fund.

As part of the Rural Health Transformation Program, 42 states are expanding or establishing new alternative payment models, a recent analysis shows.  | Forty-two states are expanding or establishing ...

Today the National Grange supported the release of a new analysis by Magnolia Market Access examining how Medicare hospital reclassification policies are increasingly diverting resources intended for ...

Billings Clinic investigators tracked trauma patients arriving directly from the scene versus patients transferred between ...

Ambulance car of emergency medical service leaving on rural dirt road in the middle of fields. Themes urgency, rescue and health care in remote location. This trend began in 2017 following a CMS rule ...

The transformation fund was a late-stage deal in 2025’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” to blunt criticism over immense Medicaid cuts that are straining rural healthcare; yet the fund only amounts to 37% of ...

Anne N. Sosin ([email protected]), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Dartmouth College. Health equity efforts in rural places have grown in recent years; however, ...

With $50 billion set to flow to states over the next five years, CMS’ new Rural Health Transformation Program represents one of the largest federal investments in rural healthcare in decades. However, ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program’s (RHTP's) $50 billion injection is “a significant step forward” for the rural health safety net but likely comes too late to reverse years of deterioration ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Indiana is now accepting applications for the Growing Rural Opportunities for Wellbeing grant program, which will provide ...

More than 100 rural grocery stores in Kansas closed their doors from 2008 to 2018. But an initiative that invests in rural communities is keeping small groceries afloat. AXTELL, KANSAS — When visiting ...