In Depth: VAHHS CEO Mike Del Trecco Discusses Hospital Budgets
NBC5
Vermont health care regulators have made their judgments on how much hospitals can spend and charge in the coming year.
The five-member Green Mountain Care Board goes through this process every year, as required by law.
Negotiations are complex and thick with numbers, but this year, relatively high health care inflation played a central role in the proceedings.
Board members said they tried to balance affordability with the need for hospitals to remain financially viable.
Vermonters spend over $6 billion annually on health care, and area hospitals get a lot of those dollars.
UVM Medical Center in Burlington asked the board to approve nearly $2 billion in spending, for example.