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Senate panel expands membership for statewide healthcare delivery advisory committee
Summary
Lawmakers revised S.126 section creating a Healthcare Delivery Advisory Committee, adding primary care and nurse-practitioner representation, a small-business seat and splitting physician seats between Vermont Medical Society and HealthFirst; the panel kept an advisory role to maintain transparency.
The Senate committee working on S.126 on May 2 revised language creating a statewide Healthcare Delivery Advisory Committee to add primary care and advanced-practice nursing representation and a small-business seat while clarifying the committee—s advisory role.
The committee—s task is to advise on the statewide health care delivery plan, establish affordability benchmarks and monitor system performance. Jen Carvey, legislative staff who read the bill language, said the committee would "establish affordability benchmarks, including for affordability of commercial health insurance, evaluate and monitor the performance of Vermont's health care system and its impact on population health outcomes, collaborate with the Green Mountain Care Board, the Agency of Human Services, the Department of Financial…
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