Maryland finds out how much the state will get from a nationwide competition for federal rural health investment. Fifty states are going to find out exactly how much money they’re getting from the Rural Health Transformation Fund. DG: That’s Hemi Tewarson, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonprofit where policymakers can learn and trade ideas. How do they make it all work, this huge windfall for rural health, and also this huge hit, looming on the horizon? DG: The exercise of applying for this rural money has been instructive, Meena says.