{"id":25898,"date":"2026-04-28T08:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25898"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:02:09","slug":"big-companies-position-themselves-for-payday-from-50b-federal-rural-health-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25898","title":{"rendered":"Big Companies Position Themselves for Payday From $50B Federal Rural Health Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Sarah Jane Tribble for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California\u2019s North Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re the folks that work at restaurants. They\u2019re the teacher\u2019s aides,\u201d said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open Door\u2019s chief executive more than six years ago. Those patients, he said, are \u201creally the heart and soul of rural America.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said if his remote health centers don\u2019t get a share of the billions of dollars Congress earmarked to transform health care in rural America, patients may soon lose services. About 50% of Open Door\u2019s 60,000 patients are on Medicaid, the joint state and federal insurance program that, together with the related Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program, covers about 76 million people with low incomes or disabilities. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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