States receive $10 billion more for rural health as far deeper Medicaid cuts loom

The Trump administration announced Monday a Disbursement of 10 billion dollars distributed among all 50 states to shore up struggling rural health systems, with some states receiving millions more than last year and others millions less.

“States have already leveraged these resources to provide better care closer to home in their rural communities. » Mehmet Oz the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a statement, adding that his agency “looks forward to helping them build on this progress in the coming year.”

The second tranche of money from the five-year Rural Health Transformation Program is closely tied to the amounts states receive in 2025, repeating some of the huge disparities from the first year of the program this funneled much more money per capita to states with fewer people.

Alaska and Montana, for example, received tens of millions more than California, despite the latter’s enormous rural population.