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Committee recommends midyear budget adjustments for health agencies amid caseload and contract pressures
Summary
A legislative policy committee reviewed midyear adjustments across health and human services agencies, endorsing administrative reallocations to cover higher mental-health utilization, contractor costs and IT migrations while noting no new policy was proposed; the committee will send a recommendation letter to Appropriations.
A legislative policy committee on Jan. 17 reviewed midyear budget adjustments across several health and human services agencies and agreed to recommend spending-authority changes to the Appropriations Committee.
Committee members heard that the Department of Mental Health has multiple increases tied to utilization: higher transportation costs for youth and adults at facilities cited as Vermont Psychiatric and Penn Riverside, more forensic evaluations and a growing PNMI caseload. Speaker 2 summarized the pattern as utilization-driven, saying the department “had an increase in transportation costs for youth and adults” and that forensic evaluations…
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