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Health Care Committee shown dozens of reports due to the committee; chairs to choose presentations and follow-ups
Summary
Counsel presented the committee with a compiled chart of reports due to the House Health Care Committee since adjournment, including Medicaid enrollment reports, Green Mountain Care Board reports, health IT strategy updates and multiple statutory annual reports; some submissions were posted, some were not submitted through the required process.
House Health Care Committee staff presented committee members on Jan. 16 with a consolidated list of reports due to the committee since the legislature last adjourned, and briefed members on which reports have been submitted, which have not, and which may require presentations.
Counsel told members the list covers many recurring and one-time reports that incoming chairs and staff use to plan presentations and hearings. Top items already submitted and listed included: the statewide suicide-prevention strategic plan and a model protocol for healthcare facilities (Act 56 related reports); the Medicaid enrollment and expenditures quarterly report; the health information technology fund report; the Green Mountain Care Board billing-back report; the Global Commitment Investment Report; the Department of Vermont Health Access report on pharmacy cost control practices; and the health information exchange five-year strategic plan update.
Counsel also noted recently submitted and new items: a psychedelic-therapy advisory working group final report, a competency-restoration fiscal estimate, and reports from technical advisory groups such as the naturopathic physician advisory group. Counsel said some reports are published on the required entity website (for example, manufacturer notices of new high-cost drugs posted on the Attorney General's site and some Green Mountain Care Board materials) while others have been uploaded to the legislative reports page.
Committee members raised process questions: Mike Fisher’s annual report from the Office of the Health Care Advocate was listed as received but counsel said it had not been posted through the required report-submission channel and that staff would follow up. Members also flagged potential duplication: Representative Daisy and other committee members said some reports appear duplicative (Act 114-related work was cited as an example) and asked staff to check whether contracts or consultant work are duplicating statutory-required reports.
Counsel summarized timing: some reports are due annually, some quarterly and some have near-term deadlines (for example, a required update on gender-affirming and reproductive-health readiness at higher education institutions is due at month-end; the Blueprint for Health annual report is due at month-end; and a presentation on Agency of Human Services reconfiguration is scheduled for early February). Staff said chairs will prioritize which reports require oral presentations and which can be handled by written submission.
