Iowa state officials are seeking up to $1 billion in federal funds to transform rural health care by building a health care model that envisions regional collaboration between providers and rural areas.

Gov. Kim Reynolds shared Wednesday, Nov. 5 that the state has submitted its application for the Rural Health Transformation Program, a federal funding initiative managed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that was created in Republicans' tax and spending law dubbed the "big, beautiful bill."

The $50 billion program is intended to help offset some of the losses hospitals will see from the approximately $911 billion in estimated cuts to federal Medicaid spending over a decade the new law will usher in.

Iowa's proposal, titled Healthy Hometowns, calls to expand a "hub-and-sp

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