Florida to receive $209M for rural health improvements

(The Center Square) – Florida will receive over $209 million in federal funding for rural health improvements, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday.

The funding is part of the Trump administration’s Working Families Tax Cuts legislation, which allocates $50 billion to the Rural Health Transformation Program.

Approved states will receive funding over five years, with $10 billion being distributed each year starting in 2026 and ending in 2030, CMS said.

Fifty percent of the funding will be distributed equally among the approved states while the other half is allocated based on factors like the state’s rural health system, current and proposed policies and more.

In Florida, a community is considered rural if the county has a population of 75,000 or less or if a county with 125,000 or fewer residents borders a rural county. The designation also extends to cities and towns located within rural counties, among other criteria.

States’s applications for the funding were assesse...