Healthcare DIVE July 22, 2025
Emily Olsen

Funding cuts enacted in the GOP’s massive tax law will push cash-strapped rural providers to deprioritize cyber preparedness, according to Sens. Ron Wyden and Mark Warner.

Dive Brief:

  • Two Democrat senators are calling on the Trump administration to release a plan to boost cyber preparedness among rural hospitals as providers prepare for Medicaid cuts that could strain their finances.
  • Rural hospitals are already vulnerable to attack, given their limited funds and access to cybersecurity personnel, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote in a letter to leaders of the HHS and CMS on Friday.
  • And the massive tax and policy law recently signed into law by President Donald Trump could worsen the situation, according to the lawmakers....

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Topics: Congress / White House, Cybersecurity, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Insurance, Medicaid, Provider, Technology
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