(File Photo of a Health Insurance Paper)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania is now set to receive over $193 million in 2026 for rural health care through a new federal program, which is designed to blunt the impact of impending Medicaid cuts and support medical services in communities. In 2025, Congress decided to inject $50 billion in the struggling rural health systems of the nation as part of the “big, beautiful” bill. The submission from Pennsylvania requested a total of $1 billion, or $200 million per year.