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Draft bill would require 60‑day notice, public hearings before hospitals cut services
Summary
S189 would require hospitals to give 60 days’ notice, hold public engagement and allow AHS and the Green Mountain Care Board to review and offer (nonbinding) recommendations before intentionally reducing or eliminating services; members cited recent local service cuts as motivating examples.
The House Healthcare Committee on Thursday reviewed S189, a bill that would create a formal notice and engagement process before a hospital intentionally reduces or eliminates a service.
Legislative counsel Jen Carvey told the committee the bill would require a hospital proposing an intentional service reduction to provide at least 60 days’ notice to the Agency of Human Services, the Green Mountain Care Board, the Office of the Health Care Advocate and the members of the General Assembly who represent the hospital service area. The hospital would have…
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