North Dakota Officials Celebrate Being Among Big Winners in Federal Rural Health Funding

(Photo by Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – North Dakota U.S. Sen. John Hoeven and Gov. Kelly Armstrong touted the success of the state’s application for federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, which landed one of the largest per-capita awards in the nation.

North Dakota received $199 million for the first year of the five-year grant.

Congress set aside $50 billion for the program in its reconciliation bill last year as a way to offset losses rural states will incur due to Medicaid cuts.

The funding, awarded to North Dakota in late December, is almost double the minimum funding available to states this year.

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