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VTDigger By Olivia Gieger The state’s main health care regulator approved budgets for all 14 of Vermont’s community hospitals during two hearings convened last week. The Green Mountain Care Board forced a reduction of almost $95 million to the revenue that hospitals can receive next year from commercial insurers, with the large majority cut from […]

VTDigger By Shaun Robinson The sweeping Republican tax and spending bill that cleared the U.S. House Thursday could cause about 45,000 people in Vermont to lose health insurance in the coming years, state officials say. The bill is now heading to President Donald Trump for a sign-off. In order to pay for key parts of […]

Addison Independent By John Flowers JACK MAYER IS one of the local health providers who spearheaded the effort to ask the Middlebury selectboard to endorse a resolution opposing proposed cuts to Medicaid.               MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday decisively endorsed a citizen-initiated resolution opposing a U.S. House-backed […]

VTDigger By Olivia Geiger Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joined a group of state legislators, health care officials and advocates in Burlington Monday morning to raise the alarm on what they called Vermont’s health care affordability crisis. “Everyone knows that our health care system, nationally and in the state of Vermont, is broken. It is dysfunctional, […]

Addison Independent “We’re acutely aware of the crisis of potentially losing several Vermont hospitals through bankruptcy, and the fact that BC/BS is struggling largely due to the cost for services at our hospitals.” — Rep. Mari Cordes   MONTPELIER — While revamping Vermont’s education funding system and expanding its housing stock are topping lawmakers’ battle […]

Seven Days By Colin Flanders Vermont’s pursuit of a more affordable health care care system must include cuts from the top, two state lawmakers say. Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky (P/D-Chittenden-Central) and Rep. Esme Cole (D-Hartford) will introduce bills in the coming days proposing to mandate that all “executives and clinical leadership” at Vermont hospitals earn no […]

VTDigger By Peter D’Auria Top executives at the University of Vermont Health Network received bonuses worth a combined $3 million at the end of last year, according to the hospital network. That sum, which the network referred to as “variable pay,” was paid out to the network’s top 19 senior leaders — including President and […]

VTDigger  By Auditi Gupta Dozens of state legislators are calling on the University of Vermont Health Network to reconsider widespread cuts the health care provider has proposed. The lawmakers are seeking to “raise the voices” of the system’s most vulnerable patients, Sen. Andrew Perchlik, D/P-Washington, said during a virtual press conference staged Tuesday by AFT […]

VTDigger By Peter D’Auria About 80 demonstrators gathered for a noontime honk and wave outside the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin to protest against proposed health care service cuts on Thursday, November 21. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For 18 years, Patty Croccolo has been a patient at Waitsfield’s family medicine clinic. The facility, which […]

VTDigger by Yardain Amron Support staff at Morrisville’s Copley Hospital voted to unionize last Thursday. The formation, which came through a decisive 68-44 vote, joins together the hospital’s nearly 150 staff with its almost 100 nurses in the regional United Nurses and Allied Professionals union. “I wanted to form a union to be able to […]