All 50 states have applied for a share of the $50 billion federal fund aimed at revitalizing rural healthcare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said Thursday.
The deadline for submissions was Wednesday.
The Hill reported that states were required to detail how they would use the first round of funding from the five-year program, which was established to help rural providers offset reductions to Medicaid and other health programs under the tax cut law.
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