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Advocates tell Vermont Health Care Committee to set concrete hospital-price goals and fix reporting gaps
Summary
Health-care advocates urged the House Health Care Committee to make hospital price targets explicit, improve data standardization and reconcile discrepancies between charity care and bad-debt reporting, saying those fixes would better protect patients and inform the Green Mountain Care Board’s budget decisions.
Advocates for patients and the Health Care Advocate’s office told the Vermont House Health Care Committee that clearer goals and better data are needed to rein in hospital prices and protect patients from medical debt.
Mike Fisher of Vermont Legal Aid and an HCA representative told the committee that the office receives confidential filings and participates in Green Mountain Care Board budget reviews, and that its priorities include data integrity, expanding patient financial assistance, and shifting regulation away from a single net-patient-revenue focus.
"We care a lot about data and data being…
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