Vermont receives $190M in the second year of federal rural health awards

Vermont is set to receive nearly $190 million in 2027 from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the second year of the federal rural healthcare transformation program. In 2026, CMS awarded Vermont $195 million, which the state has just finished awarding to more than 200 projects statewide. The second year of the five-year program is expected to look a lot like the first, according to Vermont’s Medicaid and health systems director, Jill Mazza Olson, who oversees the project in the state. Olson and her colleagues said they submitted the state’s year-two proposal hewing closely to its first-year application, which prioritized projects under four broad categories: bolstering the healthcare workforce, strengthening primary care, moving care outside of hospitals and investing in how healthcare providers share services.

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