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Awards/COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (B)

$189,544,888

Department of Health and Human Services·Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

to VA DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE SERVICE

healthactive
WORK BEGAN2025-12-29·LATEST ACTION2026-05-05·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_RHTCMS332088_075
Award description

VA RURAL VITALITY ? TRANSFORMING HEALTH ACCESS AND OUTCOMES FOR MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION RURAL RESIDENTS THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WELLNESS, AND SUSTAINABLE ACCESS - VA RURAL VITALITY – TRANSFORMING HEALTH ACCESS AND OUTCOMES FOR MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION RURAL RESIDENTS THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WELLNESS, AND SUSTAINABLE ACCESS

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Cooperative agreement to improve health access and outcomes for 1.5 million rural Virginia residents through technology, workforce development, and sustainable care models.

Sub-sectors
medicaid-entitlementrural-health-accessworkforce-development
Why this matters

Addresses rural health disparities and workforce shortages in underserved regions, critical to Medicaid sustainability and equitable healthcare delivery.

Supply-chain signal

Will drive demand for rural health IT infrastructure, telehealth platforms, and rural healthcare workforce training programs.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-22. Cost: $0.002854.

Period of performance
Start
2025-12-29
End
2030-10-30
Status
activein 1583 days
Sources

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