The Rural Rules For The Road

With the large amount of money moving to states for ‘rural health transformation,’ there is a lot discussion around rural care delivery these days. The Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), enacted as part of H.R. 1, is a $50 billion, five-year investment designed to help states transform rural health care delivery (see RHTP Overview August 2025 and RHTP State Project Abstracts).

Right now, of the states’ proposed RHTP initiatives, the two most common investments are in technology innovation and workforce development. These investments focus on building and strengthening the core digital and workforce infrastructure needed to enable access . . .