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Conference committee details new Green Mountain Care Board positions and $2.2 million in appropriations
Summary
The conference committee discussed adding six new Green Mountain Care Board positions and a $2.2 million FY26 appropriation that funds feasibility work, grants, and partial position costs; committee members flagged timing and bill language fixes for effective dates.
Conference committee members on Jan. 26 reviewed language in the health-care bill that would add classified staff at the Green Mountain Care Board and appropriate $2.2 million in fiscal year 2026 to support reference-based pricing, hospital transformation work and other initiatives.
Legislative counsel Jen Harvey, reading from the conference-marked bill, said the House-passed section 17 creates "3 new permanent classified positions at the board in FY26, a director of reference based pricing, a project manager for reference based pricing, and an operations procurement and contractual oversight manager." She noted those three positions are in addition to three already in the governor's recommended budget, producing a total of six new positions in the board…
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