§ 9453. Powers and duties
§ 9453. Powers and duties (a) The Board shall: (1) adopt uniform formats that hospitals shall use to report financial, scope-of-services, and utilization data and information; (2) designate a data organization with which hospitals shall file financial, scope-of-services, and utilization data and information; and (3) designate a data organization or organizations to process, analyze, store, […]
§ 9454. Hospitals; duties
§ 9454. Hospitals; duties (a) Hospitals shall file the following information at the time and place and in the manner established by the Board: (1) a budget for the forthcoming fiscal year; (2) financial information, including costs of operation, revenues, assets, liabilities, fund balances, other income, rates, charges, units of services, and wage and salary […]
§ 9456. Budget review
§ 9456. Budget review (a) The Board shall conduct reviews of each hospital’s proposed budget based on the information provided pursuant to this subchapter and in accordance with a schedule established by the Board. [Subsection (b) effective until January 1, 2023; for subsection (b) effective January 1, 2023 see below.] (b) In conjunction with budget […]
§ 9457. Information available to the public
§ 9457. Information available to the public (a) Information required to be filed under this subchapter shall be made available to the public upon request in accordance with 1 V.S.A. chapter 5, subchapter 3 (Public Records Act), except that information that directly or indirectly identifies individual patients or health care practitioners shall be kept confidential. […]
§ 9451. Definitions
§ 9451. Definitions As used in this subchapter: (1) “Hospital” means a hospital licensed under chapter 43 of this title, except a hospital that is conducted, maintained, or operated by the State of Vermont. (2) “Volume” means the number of inpatient days of care or admissions and the number of all inpatient and outpatient ancillary […]