Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services

When Congress enacted its FY 2025 budget reconciliation bill – the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” – it recognized that the Medicaid cuts in that legislation could have a damaging effect on some health care providers and the communities they serve and created a five-year, $50 billion “Rural Health Transformation Program” designed to help protect rural hospitals from some of the damage those cuts are expected to cause. Now, federal regulators are working to bring that program to life. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which will administer the program, has created a web site for the program.  That [...]