{"id":26109,"date":"2026-06-16T08:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26109"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:44:22","slug":"backed-by-threat-of-clawbacks-feds-wield-tight-grip-on-50b-rural-health-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=26109","title":{"rendered":"Backed by Threat of Clawbacks, Feds Wield Tight Grip on $50B Rural Health Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble and Arielle Zionts for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Maine, state health officials hoped to steer a slice of $190 million in new federal rural health funding to shield hospitals and clinics from the fallout caused by cuts to federal health programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their plan would have helped pay to treat low-income, uninsured patients.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/rural-health\/rural-health-transformation-program-federal-cms-clawbacks-state-plans\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/rural-health\/rural-health-transformation-program-federal-cms-clawbacks-state-plans\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/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 Sarah Jane Tribble and Arielle Zionts for KFF Health News) In Maine, state health officials hoped to steer a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,10,587],"tags":[80,238,410],"class_list":["post-26109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-rural-health","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-rural-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109","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=26109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26110,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26109\/revisions\/26110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}