On Thursday, Governor Kay Ivey announced Alabama has officially submitted its plan for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Today’s handoff follows Congress’s July passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill which included a provision standing up a new $50 billion program to help states strengthen care in rural America.

U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) touted major rural-health wins in the package, which included the creation of the new state-by-state funding mechanism high among them.

The program puts Alabama in line for a slice of a $50 billion federal fund aimed specifically at rural health system redesign. It includes roughly $10 billion per year for five years, with initial awards s

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