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Vermont nurses urge striking H.585 prior‑authorization clause, press for seats on governance committees
Summary
ANA Vermont and allied nursing groups told legislators they support modernizing scope language in several bills but urged striking section 11 of H.585 to avoid new prior‑authorization burdens; they also sought guaranteed nurse representation on hospital and health‑system governance and asked to join work groups implementing rural health transformation funding.
Kate McFon Williams, ANA Vermont secretary and delegate to the national American Nurses Association, told the committee that nurses are asking lawmakers to remove a prior‑authorization provision from H.585 because it would increase administrative burden and “take away from patient care.”
The coalition also asked that nurses and nurse practitioners be appointed to hospital and health‑system governance bodies. "They need to be help designing hospital governance as well as health care governance," McFon Williams said, arguing that patient‑facing clinicians can better identify on‑the‑ground problems and improve implementation of policy changes.
Liz Kuneau, director and government affairs…
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