Ohio lawmakers argue that independent, rural hospitals without "creative revenue streams" need direct payments to survive.

When Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, Arizona, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many smaller towns ...

The e Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will distribute $50 billion to improve rural health care.

Advocates for rural hospitals are warning that sweeping changes to Medicaid in the massive tax bill approved in July could threaten the existence of the facilities, which are vital both for the health ...

"We do not close roads for being less-frequently travelled," writes medical student Rachel Pernick in an op-ed. "Hospitals, ...

With the July 4 passage of Public Law 119-21, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, direct Medicaid funding will be slashed — putting hospitals, particularly rural hospitals, at risk of having to ...

The 47th president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is set to slash Medicaid, a move experts warn will strip millions of Americans of their health insurance coverage and force rural hospitals—many of which ...

Delaware has a plan to transform health care in the state’s rural areas, but is dealing with billions in federal funding cuts.

How will the recent federal budget legislation – the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) – slowly and inevitably undermine rural hospitals? Here is how it will happen. The OBBB over time will ...

Representatives Carol Miller and Terri Sewell reintroduced the Rural Hospital Flexibility Act of 2025 to reauthorize the ...

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association signed a letter in support of the funding application. Ann-Marie Alameddin, the group’s president and CEO, joined The Show to talk more.

The mounting challenges facing hospitals led Nebraska lawmakers to try to help — pushing a bill to unlock up to $1 billion in federal Medicaid funding. But that money was tied up in a federal approval ...