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Olivia Gieger

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26
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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 5, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Olivia Gieger

    Vermont Medicaid braces for new rules coming for nearly 50,000 Vermonters - VTDigger (opens the original)

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    The first of a series of changes to Medicaid is set to take effect Oct. 1, put in motion by the federal budget bill passed in July 2025. The next round of changes begins in January. Combined, the changes to the state-federal health insurance program are expected to affect nearly 50,000 Vermonters, but that doesn’t mean that all will lose coverage, say healthcare advocates and Medicaid officials. Rather, it will be a major bureaucratic lift to keep those people insured. “Everything we’ve been doi

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Olivia Gieger

    Regulators wanted more transparency on Vermont’s medical education. Now they’re getting it. - VTDigger (opens the original)

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    When Green Mountain Care Board chair Owen Foster first started to dig into Vermont’s hospitals’ budgets, one question kept surfacing: Where could all the money be going? The solvency of the state’s primary commercial insurer was teetering. Vermonters paid some of the highest rates for healthcare in the country. And still, hospitals’ budgets were tight. How could there not be enough money? Part of the answer, Foster said, lies in the Larner College of Medicine and graduate medical education train

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Olivia Gieger

    The challenge for Vermont hospitals: keep costs low, care accessible and their doors open - VTDigger (opens the original)

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    The state’s most powerful healthcare regulator thinks Vermont’s 14 hospitals can keep costs low, provide care and find financial sustainability. Not all the hospitals agree. In budget orders handed down Monday, the Green Mountain Care Board built on its efforts last year to shrink hospital budgets. This year, the independent state regulator focused on not only reducing hospital revenue, but how much of that revenue can come from commercial insurers, a figure closely tied to Vermonters’ insurance

  4. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Olivia Gieger

    Vermont’s largest hospital needs to further cut its revenue and spending next year - VTDigger (opens the original)

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    UVM Medical Center will need to take on even more austerity measures this coming fiscal year, the Green Mountain Care Board ruled late Monday. The board ordered the hospital to cut what it charges commercial insurers by 4.4%, a $32.4 million decrease from last year. Commercial insurance will bring in $1.054 billion in revenue for the medical center — the majority of the allowed total patient revenue of $1.916 billion for the coming fiscal year. But the decision was not without division. Care boa

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Olivia Gieger, Greta Solsaa

    Vermont awards first batch of $195 million in federal rural health funds - VTDigger (opens the original)

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    The first $11.7 million of $195 million in federal rural health funds earmarked for Vermont have been awarded, with the lion’s share going to tuition for students in healthcare fields. Today’s announcement directs $9 million to the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation toward tuition benefits for students in nursing, dentistry and other healthcare fields who commit to working in the state for at least five years. The remaining $2.7 million is directed to three nursing homes in Vermont and to fo

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