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Kansas health care providers will receive $225,896,117 in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Program, the sixth-highest award in the nation and about $4 million more than the state received last year.

Congress created the program in the Working Families Tax Cuts, signed into law by President Trump in 2025, and funded it at $50 billion over five years. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administers it, and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment decides where the money goes in Kansas. The state’s first-year award of nearly $222 million paid for provider grants, equipment and facility upgrades.

“Kansas ranking sixth in the country two years running shows our state made a strong case for what rural providers here actually need,” said Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas). “This funding pays for the staffing, equipment and technology that hospitals and clinics in our small towns rely on every day. It comes from the Working Families Tax Cuts, and I was proud to help craft those provisions and vote for them so we can keep quality care accessible across rural Kansas.”

Rep. Ron Estes represents Kansas’ 4th Congressional District. He serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Social Security, and on the House Budget Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. He is also a co-chair of the House Aerospace Caucus.