Next month, applications are set to open for the new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, according to comments from CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.

However, just weeks away from the application process beginning, health policy analysts still have more questions than answers about how the program will work, and they disagree about the fund’s fundamentals, from eligibility requirements to the overarching purpose of the program.

The temporary program was a last minute add-on to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, offered up by Republican congressional leaders in a final push to win over a handful of Republican holdouts , who worried that the spending package included too many cuts to Medicaid.

The spending package is expected to cut $155 billion i

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