Porter Medical Center officials wary of Medicaid cuts

In addition to anxiety about the general solvency of a Vermont health care system saddled with rising costs, a major insurance carrier on the brink of insolvency and an aging state population, Porter officials must also contend with the prospect of shrinking reimbursement through the federal Medicaid program.

Any Vermonter who has been following the dire straits of the state’s health care system immediately understands the threat posed by the cuts to Medicaid. Under Trump’s big, bad bill an estimated $1 trillion will be cut from the program that helps subsidiz … (read more)

The Patricia Hannaford Career Center (PHCC) this fall will launch a new curriculum for aspiring emergency responders, some of whom could go on to fill the ranks of local rescue squads that are in almost constant need of trained, reliable health care profe … (read more)

Tell your town officials about how federal cuts to health care would ricochet through the Vermont economy.

Hundreds of Vermont and New Hampshire healthcare workers are deeply concerned about the Trump administration’s assaults on our public health system and healthcare worldwide.

Officials at Porter Medical Center, a UVMHN affiliate in Middlebury, said the cuts will not directly affect health care operations here, but Addison County patients will feel the pinch for some health care services.

To envision and create effective change in our health care system, we must be honest with ourselves about the challenges and opportunities that deter or impel strategic change.

The public is invited to a Green Mountain Care Board meeting in Middlebury later this month to give their input on the transformation of Vermont hospitals.

BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont has a new partnership with Valera Health to provide virtual therapy and psychiatry to youth and adult policyholders.

Many Vermonters can’t afford healthcare and regulators and politicians aren’t doing anything about it.

The Bristol Town Democratic Committee sponsored State Auditor Doug Hoffer’s March 10 presentation outlined here After hearing from Hoffer, the Bristol committee adopted this resolution on Vermont healthcare on March 20: The Bristol Town Democratic Committ … (read more)

As an emergency doctor and a longtime observer of how policy decisions play out on the front line, I can say that the despair rings absolutely true, and should ring alarm bells at the highest levels. 

Green Mountain Care Board members chided OneCare Vermont for its administrative costs and salary increases on Wednesday, as the board reviewed the accountable care organization’s 2021 budget. OneCare, a private company, has proposed to manage $1.46 billio … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — It used to be that during business hours customers could pass freely back and forth between the Marble Works Pharmacy in Middlebury’s Marble Works complex and the adjacent Medicine Chest, a business that rents and sells home healthcare equipm … (read more)

As many of us are painfully and often personally aware, the cost of healthcare premium increases has been in the double digits over the past several years and there is no end in sight. What many Vermonters might not realize is the impact these increases h … (read more)