Green Mountain Care Board urges one consolidated report, requests staff and contractor funding tied to S.126

Susan Barrett, executive director of the Green Mountain Care Board, told the House Committee on Health Care on April 15 that sections of S.126 create overlapping reporting deadlines and suggested consolidating them to make the information more useful to lawmakers. "The annual report every year is released on January 15, so this report would come out on 01/15/2026," Barrett said, noting section 16 would produce a January report while section 14 would require a separate February 15, 2026, update.

Barrett said the board prefers using the February 15 date for an initial implementation report and then adding an annual reference-based pricing update to the board's January annual report starting in 2027. "We could take the G in section 16 and just have that begin on January," she said in discussion with committee members and counsel. The proposal would avoid duplicative reporting in the first year while establishing an ongoing annual entry point.

The board described staffing and contracting resources it says are necessary to support the statute's work if S.126 advances. Barrett said the governor's recommended budget already includes three general…