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Medical groups urge Senate to restore primary care payments and AHACK workforce funds
Summary
The Vermont Medical Society and primary-care advocates told the committee that proposed cuts — including a $2 million reduction to alternative primary care payments and a $1.27 million gross cut to AHACK workforce programs — would undermine stabilization and pipeline efforts; witnesses urged Senate restoration to preserve access.
Jessa Barard, representing the Vermont Medical Society and allied physician groups, urged the committee to restore two categories of cuts she said threaten primary care: a $2 million general-fund reduction (a $5 million gross reduction) in alternative payments to primary care, and roughly $1.27 million gross cut across AHACK workforce…
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