Vermont health coverage
VTDigger provides reporting on health care and public health in Vermont, including hospitals, insurance systems, human services and debates over health care policy and reform.
This section compiles coverage of medical systems, state oversight and public health decisions that affect individuals and communities statewide.
Green Mountain Care Board set modest rate increases for 2027 Vermont health insurance marketplace plans
This year’s rates represent efforts towards keeping premiums lower, while still aiming to account for insurers’ ability to pay out the costs of healthcare in Vermont.
Dartmouth Health says it needs to close telehealth services for emergency and intensive care
Five Vermont hospitals rely on the remote care to reduce costs of specialists and transfers while still providing high-acuity care close to home. Dartmouth Health says the costs are “simply unsustainable.”
For emergency department staff, violence at work is a dangerous and demoralizing reality
When patients with extreme psychological distress turn violent, providers are left with very few options.
Can a chatbot be a responsible therapist? Dartmouth professor aims to find out
Therabot, built inside Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, is the first generative AI mental health chatbot to show clinical results in a published trial.
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State regulators voice questions and support as Brattleboro hospital aims to revive its ailing finances
“I do think the Brattleboro community is suffering the consequences of mismanagement,” a member of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board said Friday of problems recently uncovered at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
Kinney Drugs pulls back AI tool after customer complaints
The tool was causing medication delays and confusion, several of the pharmacy’s customers previously told VTDigger.
Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital cuts staff and beds despite pushback
The Department of Mental Health says the cuts are due to declining census, though demand for psychiatric care is high in Vermont.
UVM Health says big change is afoot — but is it enough to balance the budget?
After years of pressure to cut its revenue, the hospital network now takes an axe to expenses.
Annual recovery summit aims to explain the unexplainable
Organized by people in recovery from substance use disorder, the event brings together an often stigmatized community to share their stories.
Brattleboro hospital projects more deficit spending as it reveals ‘significant deficiencies’
“We are not financially stable at this time, but we are stabilizing,” Brattleboro Memorial Hospital has told the state in an annual filing delayed by recent administrative and accounting upheaval.
Round 2 of rabies vaccine bait drop begins Saturday
Over the next month, baited vaccine will be distributed across 10 counties by airplane in rural areas, by helicopter in suburban areas, and by hand in residential areas.
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