(Just The News)—President Donald Trump and senior health administration officials touted the $50 billion set aside in the One Big Beautiful Bill for rural health care during a round table Friday, saying it will transform the care available to rural Americans.
Rural health care has long been a concern for lawmakers, as it can be difficult for hospitals and medical centers to maintain patient volumes high enough to remain financially sustainable. Rural populations also tend to be older and lower income, so rural hospitals often see a lot of patients on Medicare or Medicaid, which typically reimburse at lower rates than private insurance.
The funding is the largest ever federal investment in rural health care in American history, according to the administration. It has been used to start the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will provide $50 million to states in health care improvement funds over a five-year period, from 2026 to 2030. Fifty percent of the funding is distributed equally among the states, and the states compete for the other 50%.
According to Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, if rural Americans find themselves in certain “vulnerable situations,” their life expectancy is on average nine years shorter.
“Your zip code will no longer dictate whether you have excellent healthcare. Your zip code will no longer be your destiny. It’s not going to dictate your life expectancy,” Oz said Friday. “We don’t want rural America left behind anymore.”
Oz listed some of the ways states have proposed reaching rural communities as part of this initiative.
North Carolina and Pennsylvania, he said, use “regional spoke models.”
“[That] means you’ve got a big hospital in the city, and they adopt or work closely with some rural hospitals to solve the challenges of fragmented care. And that actually works,” Oz said. “You share administrative back office work, you group purchase your stuff, you save money, you exchange medical records.”
Where there’s a dearth of OB-GYNs in Alabama, the state is using “robots to do ultrasounds” on pregnant women, according to Oz. Delaware is creating “their first ever medical school in a rural part of the state,” Oz said, to promote health care services in rural areas.
The states “gave us brilliant ideas that they’re talking with each other about,” Oz said.
States’ first program awards for 2026 have already been determined and range from $147 million to $281 million, with the largest awards going to Texas, Alaska, California, Montana, Oklahoma and Kansas.
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