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Health and human-services providers press for multiple BAA adjustments including Bridges to Health, FQHC rate update and residential care correction
Summary
Representatives from NOFA, the health-care advocate, Bi-State Primary Care Association and long-term care providers urged the committee to add one-time and technical FY26 fixes: funding for Bridges to Health, inflation/NEI adjustments to Medicaid FQHC rates, and restoration of a reduced Tier 1 residential care reimbursement that providers say fell by 35%.
A string of health and human-services witnesses urged the Appropriations Committee to use the FY2026 Budget Adjustment Act to protect provider capacity and vulnerable populations.
Bridges to Health: Grace O’Dell (NOFA-Vermont) requested $167,000 (one-time) to continue Bridges to Health, a care coordination program for migrant and immigrant workers that employs eight regional community health workers and serves more than 1,000 farmworkers. Mike Fisher, the state’s chief health care advocate, supported that request and asked…
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