{"id":25620,"date":"2026-02-24T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25620"},"modified":"2026-02-24T08:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:27:35","slug":"3-big-questions-surrounding-the-rural-health-transformation-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25620","title":{"rendered":"3 big questions surrounding the Rural Health Transformation Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Andrew Cass for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As funds begin flowing to states through the five-year, $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, hospital leaders are confronting a central question: Will the initiative meaningfully stabilize struggling providers \u2014 or will it fall short of offsetting an estimated $137 billion in Medicaid cuts to rural communities over the next decade?  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/3-big-questions-surrounding-the-rural-health-transformation-program\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/3-big-questions-surrounding-the-rural-health-transformation-program\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Andrew Cass for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) As funds begin flowing to states through the five-year, $50 billion Rural Health<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,587],"tags":[238,67,410,1991],"class_list":["post-25620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medicaid","category-rural-health","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicaid","tag-rural-health","tag-rural-health-transformation-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25621,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620\/revisions\/25621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}