2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (496+ words) Gov. Phil Scott issued an executive order Wednesday that included a number of measures to decrease health insurance regulations in an effort to lower costs, including implementing age-based insurance premiums." "None of these ideas are radical," Scott said in a…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (843+ words) UVM Health plans to stop paying for some weight loss medications for employees on its health insurance plans, the hospital group announced in an email Wednesday." The hospital group says it expects to save $19 million each year by no longer…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (870+ words) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont has withdrawn a proposal for cheaper insurance plans that it had intended to offer on Vermont Health Connect for 2027. Supporters saw the plans as expanding health insurance options for Vermonters, while critics worried it…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (870+ words) Vermont's largest commercial health insurer wants to offer a new suite of cheaper plans, but the state's primary healthcare regulator is casting doubt on whether that would actually yield any real savings. When expanded federal subsidies for people buying health…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1153+ words) 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…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (788+ words) A big change like this is like shaking up a snowglobe and seeing where everything lands," Nolan Langweil, a principal analyst in the Legislature's Joint Fiscal Office, told the House Health Care Committee on Thursday, as he ran them through…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1697+ words) When 2025 ended, so too did Vermont's eight-year experiment in systemwide health care payment reform." Now as the state looks to what comes next in health care reform, one proposal working its way through the Legislature aims to incorporate the lessons…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (842+ words) After years of financial precarity, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, the state's largest health insurer, is on the path to financial recovery for 2025, the company reported Monday. In 2025, the insurer saw $2 billion in revenue and paid out $1. 8 billion in…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1503+ words) Sharon Poddick is someone who budgets down to the last dollar. When she lost her job in companywide layoffs a little over a year ago "and with it, her employer-sponsored health insurance "she and her husband started buying health care…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (684+ words) Vermont health care regulators have issued a warning, but won't intervene, as new leaders at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital work to control a projected $14. 5 million annual budget shortfall. "We want Brattleboro to thrive," Owen Foster, chair of the state's Green Mountain…...