Washington, D.C. (WDNews) — The White House issued a statement Sunday emphasizing how President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill is investing in rural healthcare nationwide in what it describes as a historic way.
The Rural Health Transformation Program, a significant program that offers new federal financing to assist states in enhancing rural hospital operations, expanding access to clinicians, and eventually improving outcomes in underserved communities, is at the heart of the announcement.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will monitor the use of monies and states will be asked to submit comprehensive transformation plans. The memo claims that the objective is to guarantee that money goes to the most worthy recipients rather than the most politically connected.
The memo argues that small rural hospitals with low patient volumes are not well served by previous rural health programs that mostly rely on service payments. Rather, the goal of the new initiative is to provide hospitals with various investment options that would eventually help them become more self-sufficient.
In a scathing passage, the document charges industry lobbyists with inciting panic and spreading faulty analysis in order to undermine the benefits of the plan for rural areas. The government contends that by focusing on waste, fraud, and abuse and making sure federal dollars are allocated to American residents and underprivileged communities, OBBB corrects the disparity that rural hospitals previously received—just 7% of Medicaid hospital spending.
The administration describes this as a long-overdue investment after years of neglect and claims it represents a turning point in rural healthcare policy.
