Committee narrows reporting on statewide health care plan, seeks fiscal detail on $4.5 million AHS request

The House committee reviewing a package of health-care implementation provisions agreed to simplify overlapping reporting requirements and scheduled the next formal updates from state agencies while pressing the Agency of Human Services for more detail on a $4.5 million fiscal request.

Committee members discussed combining and trimming multiple reports so the Agency of Human Services (AHS) and the Green Mountain Care Board produce clearer, non-duplicative updates on the statewide health care delivery plan, reference-based pricing and related implementation activity. Members asked AHS to provide a detailed breakdown of a $4,500,000 fiscal note tied to section 8 of the bill by the following Monday to inform a Tuesday markup deadline.

The committee kept a one-time AHS implementation update and an ongoing annual update but removed separate reporting on “advanced health care data integration,” saying monthly transformation reports already supplied by AHS reduce the need for repeated statutory submissions. AHS will provide a status update on efforts to develop, update and maintain the…