{"id":922768,"date":"2026-07-27T01:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/backed-by-threat-of-clawbacks-feds-wield-tight-grip-on-50b-rural-health-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:13:59","slug":"backed-by-threat-of-clawbacks-feds-wield-tight-grip-on-50b-rural-health-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/backed-by-threat-of-clawbacks-feds-wield-tight-grip-on-50b-rural-health-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Backed by Threat of Clawbacks, Feds Wield Tight Grip on $50B Rural Health Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare &#038; Medicaid Services, framed the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as \u201cbold, creative plans\u201d led by states. But as states have started to roll out their plans, federal officials control where and how the money is spent&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/rural-health\/rural-health-transformation-program-federal-cms-clawbacks-state-plans\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Sarah Jane Tribble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, framed the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as \u201cbold, creative plans\u201d led by states. But as states have started to roll out their plans, federal officials control where and how the money is spent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36121,192,3042],"tags":[9859,6125],"class_list":["post-922768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-backed","category-sports","category-threat","tag-backed","tag-threat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}