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Representative Cortes outlines package: CON thresholds, transaction oversight, doulas, MAID scope and stronger advocate access to data
Summary
Representative Cortes presented a package: raise certificate-of-need thresholds (H96); require oversight of health-entity transactions (H71); permit naturopathic doctors to authorize medical aid-in-dying and COLST/DNR (H75); expand data access for the Office of the Health Care Advocate (H80); and create certification for community doulas (H79).
Representative Cortes presented a set of bills addressing oversight, transactions and workforce in Vermont’s health system.
H96 would raise monetary thresholds that trigger the state’s certificate-of-need (CON) review, a change sponsors say would reduce regulatory burden for smaller projects and help new entrants such as freestanding birth centers. Cortes said stakeholders including hospitals and private providers participated in drafting the bill.
H71 is a longer measure that would…
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