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The effort, which is one aspect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, earmarks $50 billion across five fiscal years, making available $10 billion annually from 2026 to 2030 to all 50 states. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz revealed the plan Monday, underscoring its goal to reverse the trend of long-term declines in rural health metrics while avoiding building out costly new infrastructure.

"This is a massive effort to change the unfortunate reality that has overtaken rural healthcare in America, which is that your ZIP code has started to predict your life expectancy," Oz told reporters. He said the money will also go toward other pilot projects across the country.

Administration officials said that half the funds will be divided evenly between the states, with the other $25 billion apportioned according to rural healthcare infrastructure, state-led reforms, and application-based proposals. Funds could be reclaimed if states fail to meet benchmarks or neglect their committed reforms.

"The purpose of this $50 billion investment in rural healthcare is not to pay off bills," Oz said. "The purpose of this $50 billion investment is to allow us to right-size the system and to deal with the fundamental hindrances of improvement in rural healthcare."

The announcement comes as rural hospitals have been at the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/rural-hospitals-at-center-of-megabill-debate-over-medicaid-5874317">center</a> of Medicaid overhaul discussions.

“We have an unstable market that is causing lots of potential peril to Americans who need our help the most,” Oz told reporters in June.

This rural push aligns with Trump's fiscal 2026 "<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/trumps-skinny-budget-a-bold-prescription-for-a-healthier-hhs-5851685">skinny budget</a>" for the Department of Health and Human Services, cutting discretionary spending by 33 percent to $80.4 billion and axing 20,000 jobs.

Those reforms combine multiple agencies into a new Administration for a Healthy America, which integrates rural programs and redirects any savings from the streamlining to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s priorities, including environmental health, mental health services, and chronic disease prevention.

The administration has also <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/doge-has-found-14-billion-in-medicaid-fraud-waste-and-abuse-dr-mehmet-oz-says-5863586">highlighted</a> $14 billion in identified Medicaid fraud, waste, and abuse through the Department of Government Efficiency, as highlighted by Oz earlier this year.

“There’s about $14 billion we’ve identified with DOGE, of folks who are duly enrolled wrongly in multiple states for Medicaid,” Oz <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dr-oz-says-taxpayers-footing-14-billion-bill-medicaid-fraud-while-eligible-patients-struggle-care">told</a> Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” in May.

Complementary measures include agreements with nine pharmaceutical firms to <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-unveils-deals-with-9-pharma-companies-to-reduce-drug-prices-5960457">cut</a> drug costs and <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/cms-unveils-model-to-expand-coverage-of-certain-weight-loss-drugs-5962449">expanded</a> coverage models for select weight-loss medications in a bid to help rural patients.

<em>Reuters contributed to this report.</em>

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