Should your insurance company be allowed to stop you from getting a treatment — even if your doctor says it’s necessary?

We have officially achieved policy crossover. All of the policy bills that did not make it out of committee last week will not be moving forward.

The pandemic shed light on the issues health care and service workers faced dealing with their own mental health. Now, the Brattleboro Retreat is expanding a program to help more of those and other professionals.

The Vermont Business Roundtable’s Research and Education Foundation has released a report, forecasting a critical demand for skilled nursing professionals within the next two years.

A new program at the University of Vermont will fast-track career changers into the nursing profession.

Data from the CDC suggests norovirus is peaking in the northeast.

Hardwick residents want to force a neighboring town to close its cherished but tiny elementary school.

UnitedHealth Group said it plans to test connections to its Change Healthcare’s medical claims software and network starting Monday, March 18, and restore service through the week.

Lawmakers watered down a sweeping health care bill last week, replacing a provision that would expand access to Medicaid for many Vermonters with a study.

It’s Town Meeting Week, when the legislators are released from the State House and allowed back in the wild to take a breather and catch up with their constituents.

Vermont lawmakers are making their final decisions on what bills they want to pursue as they get closer to the halfway point of the legislative session, with the crossover deadline coming up on March 15.

A cyberattack is affecting the ability of hundreds of thousands of Vermonters to get medication. Around 200,000 Vermont Medicaid patients are running into issues getting their medications from pharmacies, and state leaders are working to try to remedy the situation.

In the midst of a nationwide healthcare worker shortage, a seasonal surge in respiratory viruses, and reduced options for Vermonters who need long-term or skilled nursing care, hospitals across the region are at or nearing capacity.

First responders show up at fatal car crashes, house fires and overdoses in Vermont's largest cities and its smallest towns.

A huge thank you to the House Health Care and House Human Services Committees and their chairs, Rep. Lori Houghton and Rep. Theresa Wood, for holding a joint hearing last week on the systemwide impact of patients who cannot get to the appropriate level of care due to a fragile post-acute and long term care system.

Health care officials told lawmakers Wednesday that a shortage of nursing home beds has forced hospitals to become residential care providers for patients who have nowhere else to go.

The Vermont House on Thursday gave its strong approval to legislation intended to make telemedicine more accessible.

Pharmacies warned of long waits for customers and U.S. military clinics worldwide have been affected after a cyberattack against one of the country’s largest prescription processors rolled into a third day of downtime.

Once again, I am interrupting your regularly scheduled programming to write a love letter to Montpelier. Last week, the Valentine’s Day Phantom plastered the town with hearts. Just like the first snow of the year, it never loses its magic. Montpelier is everything from children getting a five-cent roll after school at Manghis Bread to running into a legislator while grabbing pizza, and I am so thankful to live and work here.