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Committee ranks health-care budget priorities, forwards recommendations to appropriations
Summary
A health-care committee compiled and ranked funding requests it plans to send to the appropriations committee, placing increases to FQHC Medicaid rates and home health provider rates at the top and recommending moves to base funding for several pilot programs.
Committee member 1, a member of the Health Care Committee, said the panel had completed a ranked list of budget recommendations to send to the appropriations committee and presented the group’s top priorities.
The committee’s highest-priority, base-funding recommendations include increasing Medicaid reimbursement rates for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and raising home-health provider rates. The panel also ranked a Vermont Care Partners request for provider rate increases for designated agencies (DAs) and specialized service agencies (SSAs) and approved moving Bridges to Health into the base budget with an identified base amount for this year of $675,900,…
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