Trump administration launches rollout of $50B Rural Health Fund

The Trump administration on Monday announced the formal launch of its $50 billion rural health fund created through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Beginning next year, states will receive money from the Rural Health Transformation Program averaging around $200 million and ranging between $145 million to $281 million. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced in November that all 50 states had applied to the fund.

"Over the last roughly six weeks, there's been an intense review of these applications, and it was based on three major criteria," Oz said in a briefing Monday.