Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that Iowa has been awarded funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program, a federal initiative managed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Iowa’s proposal, Healthy Hometowns, which aims to strengthen health care in rural communities, will receive $209 million for the first year of implementation. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports the Rural Health Transformation Program was authorized by the spending bill passed in Congress this summer. The program is set to allocate $50 billion to states between 2026 and 2030 and is meant to help offset the estimated $137 billion decline in rural Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, according to KFF.
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