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Committee keeps language for board to monitor effects of authorized hospital service reductions
Summary
A legislative committee discussed language requiring the Green Mountain Care Board, in collaboration with the Department of Financial Regulation, to monitor the effects of any authorized decreases in hospital services on Vermonters and the statewide system; members emphasized collaboration but noted no new enforcement power was added.
At a legislative committee meeting, members reviewed draft language that would require the Green Mountain Care Board, working with the Department of Financial Regulation, to monitor the implementation of any authorized decrease in hospital services and assess whether those decreases benefit Vermonters or Vermont’s health care system.
The draft provision appears at the end of a section on hospital budgets and ties monitoring to the broader policy goal of ensuring service reductions yield commensurate…
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