Health Care

The Green Mountain Care Board has ordered UVM Medical Center to level-fund its net patient revenue next year and also reduce its commercial insurance rate by 16%.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the next round of COVID-19 vaccines for the fall season, but it significantly changed who can get it.

Vermont leaders and doctors react to the CDC's changes to COVID vaccine guidance.

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has lost money for the past five years, and expects to lose almost $3 million next year. The hospital's proposed budget for next year was inaccurate and incomplete, according to state regulators, and now the hospital might get an independent observer to get its financial reporting together.

The Vermont Medical Society was one of nine organizations that sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after it deleted scientific data related to LGBTQ+ health, reproductive care, vaccines, HIV/AIDS and other health equity issues.

Insurance companies will no longer cover certain weight-loss drugs and are expected to save millions on hospital-administered drugs.

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital cut six positions earlier this summer. About a dozen people showed up Friday morning to urge hospital leaders to avoid additional layoffs.

The state’s hospitals are requesting to increase the prices they charge commercial insurers by less than 3% next year, with the exception of Copley Hospital.

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury will close its occupational medicine office in October. It's the latest provider in the state to announce service closures in an effort to cut health care costs.

Vermont lawmakers heard contradictory testimony Thursday as they begin the process of determining what role state government will play in addressing federal cuts to key human services programs.