Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Vermont medical groups urge lawmakers to restore primary-care funding and workforce supports
Summary
Representatives of the Vermont Medical Society and AHEC asked the Health Care Committee to reverse proposed cuts to primary-care base payments and workforce programs, arguing rural recruitment, loan-repayment and scholarship funds cannot be replaced by federal RHT dollars.
Jessa Barnard, executive director of the Vermont Medical Society, told the committee on Feb. 11 that cuts in the governor's recommended budget threaten core primary-care payments and workforce programs and cannot simply be replaced with Rural Health Transformation (RHT) funds.
"RHT funding, as I'm sure you have heard many times over, can't go to base rates, can't ... go to provider base payments and also can't supplant budget items," Barnard said. She asked lawmakers to restore workforce line items (loan repayment, early pipeline programming and physician placement services) and to direct payments that formerly flowed through the ACO to continue reaching primary-care practices.
Barnard describ…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
