House Appropriations Committee hears update on Vermont’s $195 million Rural Health Transformation award

On March 10, 2026, the House Appropriations Committee heard an update from Jill Maza Olsen, Medicaid and health systems director at the Agency of Human Services, on Vermont’s Rural Health Transformation cooperative agreement, which Olsen said amounts to "195 million and change." Olsen told the committee the federal initiative is a national, five-year program intended to support rural health systems and that Vermont’s award is one of the largest on a per-resident basis.