On Monday, the Trump administration announced the first dispersement of funding from the new $50 billion rural healthcare fund, which is designed to support rural healthcare following major cuts to federal funding enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed by President Donald Trump earlier this year.
The first-year awards will...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services established a new Office of Rural Health Transformation on December 22, consolidating responsibility for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program within the agency, according to a notice published in the Federal Register. The office will serve as CMS’s central point of control...Arizona News
The Trump administration is launching a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, billed as the largest federal investment ever directed at rural health care, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The initiative, administered by CMS, is designed to strengthen struggling rural systems by modernizing...White Papers, E books, Reports and more
Rural communities are seeing a rapid decline in independent physicians and practices as corporate ownership expands, according to new research from the Physicians Advocacy Institute and Avalere. The report builds on recent national data to offer a focused analysis of how healthcare consolidation is reshaping the rural practice...National News
The report highlights how certain Medicare Advantage plans are creating growing challenges for rural hospitals, impacting patient care and financial sustainability.
Medicare Advantage payers often reimburse hospitals below cost, delay or deny crucial payments, and impose onerous and unnecessary administrative burdens that prevent or...
In two decades the difference between age-adjusted natural cause mortality (NCM) rates for the overall population in rural and urban areas grew from 6% higher in rural areas than urban areas in 1999 to 20% higher in rural areas than urban areas in 2019.
Mortality rates can provide a sense of how individual and community...
This year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement a lower physician supervision requirement for hospital outpatient therapeutic services. CMS has required direct supervision of services such as, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for the past decade.
The change was finalized in November 2019, making...
