State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year.
KFF Health News· Thu 15:00
Delays in the funding awards for a $50 billion federal health program? Alan Morgan, head of the National Rural Health Association, says: “It’s just going to happen.”
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State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year.
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Federal leaders overseeing a $50 billion rural health fund missed a critical deadline to announce how much they’ll give states next year, alerting state leaders to the delay with a mass email. A 12-sentence message from Alina Czekai, director of the federal…
Delays in the funding awards for a $50 billion federal health program? Alan Morgan, head of the National Rural Health Association, says: “It’s just going to happen.”
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.