3+ hour, 18+ min ago Every gift is doubled and sends two days of emergency heat to a home in need.Will you chip in? In a new public awareness campaign, BlueCross BlueShield of Vermont has joined four independent Chittenden County healthcare facilities in urging…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago BRATTLEBORO " Brattleboro Memorial Hospital is projecting to end its current budget with a $14.5 million operating loss, potentially extending a string of annual shortfalls since 2020. "This is not the budget outcome we had hoped for," Elizabeth McLarney, one of two acting…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago Bouncing from plan to plan for Medicare coverage has become an inadvertent, annual tradition for Becky Beerwald. Beerwald is just one of the thousands of Vermonters trying to make sense of the coverage that remains available now that Medicare Advantage…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago VTDigger's Thanksgiving Drive ends soon. Help us reach 1,200 members and you'll also send 3 meals to a neighbor in need. The health care apocalypse has arrived." Each reader donation fuels independent statewide news and provides 3 meals to a neighbor. Join by…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago When the window to buy 2026 plans on Vermont Health Connect opens on Saturday, nearly 30,000 Vermonters will face what for many is an impossible choice: pay double or triple what they have been paying for their health insurance or go without....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago BRATTLEBORO " Ask administrators at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital about a multimillion-dollar operating budget shortfall and they'll point to everything from too many unpaid patient bills to their own staff's rising health insurance costs. "We fully recognize that we are in a…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago Vermont Blue Advantage will no longer offer any Medicare Advantage plans in the state for 2026." On October 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont announced Vermont Blue Advantage would not continue coverage for the 26,000 people in the state on its individual…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago Nearly all Vermonters on Medicare Advantage individual plans are expected to lose their current health insurance for 2026. New data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reveal all but one provider in the state will discontinue coverage for 2026. Neither UnitedHealth…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago Vermont's independent health care regulator, the Green Mountain Care Board, is considering a set of recommendations that would place tighter guardrails on expenses run rampant across the University of Vermont Health Network. The board's staff presented the recommendations at its…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago Vermont's top health care regulator ordered health insurers selling plans on the state's Affordable Care Act marketplace to keep their premium price increases for next year much lower than the companies proposed in May" On Friday, the Green Mountain Care…...