Medicaid Cuts Complicate New Rural Health Fund, Experts Say

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tucked inside the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is new funding for rural healthcare. It’s called the Rural Health Transformation Program. It’s a 50-billion-dollar one time funding program aimed at improving healthcare access in rural communities, but will it move the needle on transforming health care? Health policy experts are concerned with the estimated Medicaid cuts from the OBBBA, this funding might not be enough.