Skip to search and filter Halle Foundation unites University of Arizona and Banner Health to expand primary care graduate medical education statewide Oct. 24, 2025 Read more States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble Oct. 20, 2025 Rural hospitals and clinics nationwide face a looming financial catastrophe, with President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending law expected to slash federal Medicaid spending on health care in rural areas by $137 billion over 10 years. Congressional Republicans added the one-time, five-year Rural Health Transformation Program as a last-minute sweetener to win the support of conservative holdouts who worried about the bill’s financial fallout for rural hospitals. Read more Arizona’s community health centers were built on Medicaid. Now they face uncertainty Sept. 25, 2025 Dr. Derksen is quoted in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting article on how upcoming changes to Medicaid will impact community health centers. Read more Image Medicaid cuts in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could cripple some of Arizona’s rural hospitals July 29, 2025 Large cuts to Medicaid in the massive tax and spending plan that Republicans are finalizing could deal a major blow to Arizona’s rural hospitals, threatening services for tens of thousands of residents. Read more Image Reverse Robin Hood: Medicaid cuts threaten rural Arizona hospitals to fund top 1% tax breaks July 15, 2025 Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” could leave thousands without care in Arizona and shutter five rural hospitals. Read more Image These Arizonans may be the most vulnerable to Medicaid cuts in Big Beautiful Bill July 9, 2025 The bill signed into law on July 4, will affect hundreds of thousands of Arizonans currently enrolled in Medicaid, particularly childless adults, due to newly-added work and documentation requirements. University of Arizona associate vice president Dr. Daniel Derksen, director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health expects cuts and predicts a cascade of problems, including hospital closures, personal bankruptcy and delayed care. "You can't get to $1 trillion in savings without throwing a lot of people off," he said. "You can't do it unless you eliminate coverage or reduce the federal Medicaid funding to states." Read more Pagination … 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
Halle Foundation unites University of Arizona and Banner Health to expand primary care graduate medical education statewide Oct. 24, 2025 Read more
States Jostle Over $50B Rural Health Fund as Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Trigger Scramble Oct. 20, 2025 Rural hospitals and clinics nationwide face a looming financial catastrophe, with President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending law expected to slash federal Medicaid spending on health care in rural areas by $137 billion over 10 years. Congressional Republicans added the one-time, five-year Rural Health Transformation Program as a last-minute sweetener to win the support of conservative holdouts who worried about the bill’s financial fallout for rural hospitals. Read more
Arizona’s community health centers were built on Medicaid. Now they face uncertainty Sept. 25, 2025 Dr. Derksen is quoted in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting article on how upcoming changes to Medicaid will impact community health centers. Read more
Image Medicaid cuts in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could cripple some of Arizona’s rural hospitals July 29, 2025 Large cuts to Medicaid in the massive tax and spending plan that Republicans are finalizing could deal a major blow to Arizona’s rural hospitals, threatening services for tens of thousands of residents. Read more
Image Reverse Robin Hood: Medicaid cuts threaten rural Arizona hospitals to fund top 1% tax breaks July 15, 2025 Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” could leave thousands without care in Arizona and shutter five rural hospitals. Read more
Image These Arizonans may be the most vulnerable to Medicaid cuts in Big Beautiful Bill July 9, 2025 The bill signed into law on July 4, will affect hundreds of thousands of Arizonans currently enrolled in Medicaid, particularly childless adults, due to newly-added work and documentation requirements. University of Arizona associate vice president Dr. Daniel Derksen, director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health expects cuts and predicts a cascade of problems, including hospital closures, personal bankruptcy and delayed care. "You can't get to $1 trillion in savings without throwing a lot of people off," he said. "You can't do it unless you eliminate coverage or reduce the federal Medicaid funding to states." Read more
