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Hospitals and medical society support raising CON thresholds; stakeholders ask for proportionality and contract clarifications
Summary
Hospital association and medical society representatives told the board they back proposals to raise certificate-of-need thresholds, urged proportionality for academic medical centers and asked for clearer language to exempt state-budgeted projects from CON requirements.
Representatives of Vermont hospitals and the Vermont Medical Society told the Green Mountain Care Board they back raising certificate-of-need (CON) jurisdictional thresholds and simplifying the CON process, while requesting clarifications to preserve access and account for academic medical centers.
Devon Green of the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems said hospitals support increasing jurisdictional thresholds in the proposed changes and suggested considering proportionality for academic tertiary centers that face higher per-user costs for projects such as electronic medical records. "So, hospitals are in…
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