The Trump administration announced an additional $1 million in funding for North Dakota through the Rural Health Transformation Program to expand coordinated statewide healthcare services, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The funding will support the launch of the Coordinating and Connecting Care Initiative, which aims to bring together patients, rural healthcare providers, community-based and volunteer organizations, and tribal partners to identify gaps in care and improve healthcare coordination across the state, CMS said.
North Dakota received nearly $200 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program in its first year. The program was funded through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, which allocated $50 billion over five years to help states transform healthcare delivery.
In addition to the $1 million coordination funding, North Dakota has announced nearly $60 million in programs for fiscal year 2026, including $40 million in grants for rural hospitals to replace aging clinical equipment, $10 million for healthcare workforce retention across the state's 37 Critical Access Hospitals, and $1.5 million for a mobile mammography unit to serve western North Dakota.