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Committee agrees to advance H.80 to clarify Health Care Advocate access to confidential materials
Summary
The committee agreed to work on H.80, a housekeeping bill for the Office of the Health Care Advocate that updates statutory language to reflect current practice, clarifies the office’s independence and its ability to access confidential hospital and insurer materials, and addresses friction around insurance rate‑review prehearing questions.
Legislative committee members said they will work this week on H.80, a housekeeping bill for the Office of the Health Care Advocate that staff say mostly aligns the statute with the office’s current practices and clarifies its independence.
The bill “seeks to comply with what our actual practice is,” Mike Fisher, identified in the discussion as the Health Care Advocate, told the committee. Fisher said the measure updates language — including replacing the term “consumer” with “Vermonter” —…
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