October 1, 2015 DEADLINE

10,000 Record Backlog and then…..

Blue Cross is currently seeking over $500,000 from VHC for retroactive terminations. With the backlog far from sorted, that number may rise quickly.

“If they had a claim, and they weren’t supposed to be covered by us at that time, we go back to the provider and say, we want to recoup those, and work out the accounting,” Gustafson said. “We pay providers on a monthly basis, so we want to true up. They need to bill another entity.”

Just a year after Vermont became the first state to require labels for products made with genetically modified organisms, Governor Peter Shumlin on Thursday signed an equally controversial but very different kind of legislation: the state has now become the...

Heroin Labeled as “Obama Care”

SPRINGFIELD — Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin took the extraordinary step of devoting his entire State of the State message earlier this month to highlight what he described as a “full-blown heroin crisis” in his state.

“It is a crisis bubbling just beneath the surface that may be invisible to many but is already highly visible to law enforcement, medical personnel, social service and addiction…

On Thursday, Jan. 5th, Mr. Shumlin addressed a packed state house in Vermont's annual State of the State. To say he accurately measured the state of the People of Vermont, would be laughable.