States look to overhaul how rural health care is paid for

With rural health care in crisis, states want to use a new $50 billion federal grant program to dramatically overhaul the way hospitals and other health care providers in remote areas deliver — and are paid — for care. 

In a review by Pluribus News, state applications for the Rural Health Transformation Program demonstrate widespread interest in reimagining what it means to keep people healthy in parts of the country where hospitals are struggling to provide basic services.