{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/the-one-big-beautiful-bill-protects-rural-hospitals", "The One Big Beautiful Bill Protects Rural Hospitals", "2025-07-30", "2025", "2025-07", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--Through the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) makes the single largest investment in rural health care since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.\n\nRural hospitals have faced ongoing issues for many years, including low patient volumes, inadequate workforces, crumbling infrastructure, outdated technology and changing reimbursement trends. The fiscal vulnerabilities they face are multifaceted and often unique to each facility. The $50 billion rural hospital fund is intended to provide immediate relief to rural hospitals while allowing facilities to establish the tools necessary to be successful in the long term.\n\n\u201cThis legislation makes the largest investment in decades in rural health care, ensuring states have the resources they need to address the unique challenges facing their rural hospitals,\u201d said Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho). \u201cThis is an efficient way to ensure the sustainability of our rural health care facilities while protecting taxpayer dollars from waste, fraud and abuse.\u201d\n\nRead the fact sheet about the Rural Health Transformation Program HERE.\n\nKey Points About the Rural Health Transformation Program:\n\nThe Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) supplies $50 billion to stabilize and strengthen rural hospitals and providers.\n\nFifty percent of the $50 billion funding allocation will be divided equally among states that submit an application to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).\n\nThe remaining 50 percent will be distributed to states based on a formula developed by the CMS Administrator. The law requires the CMS Administrator to consider a state\u2019s rural population, proportion of health care facilities in rural areas and situation of hospitals that serve a high proportion of low-income patients.\n\nAssuming all 50 states apply and are approved, each state will receive at least $100 million per year for five years.\n\nBecause rural hospitals and providers face vulnerabilities that are multifaceted and unique, the RHTP allows the states--who know the issues in their communities better than the federal government--to work with providers to determine the best use of funds. This will give rural hospitals the tools to stabilize their finances in the short term and offer states the opportunity to create a long-term plan.\n\nClick HERE to learn more about the Finance Committee provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:40:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/the-one-big-beautiful-bill-protects-rural-hospitals"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4377967454493046, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}