Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9411
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9411
- Board: means the Green Mountain Care Board established in chapter 220 of this title. See
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Financial Regulation or the Commissioner's designee. See
- Health care provider: means a person, partnership, or corporation, other than a facility or institution, licensed or certified or authorized by law to provide professional health care service in this State to an individual during that individual's medical care, treatment, or confinement. See
- Health insurer: means any health insurance company, nonprofit hospital and medical service corporation, managed care organizations, and, to the extent permitted under federal law, any administrator of an insured, self-insured, or publicly funded health care benefit plan offered by public and private entities. See
- Hospital: means an acute care hospital licensed under chapter 43 of this title. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
§ 9411. Interactive price transparency dashboard
(a) The Green Mountain Care Board shall develop and maintain a public, interactive, Internet-based price transparency dashboard that allows consumers to compare health care prices for certain health care services across the State. Using data from the Vermont Healthcare Claims Uniform Reporting and Evaluation System (VHCURES) established pursuant to section 9410 of this title, the dashboard shall provide the range of actual allowed amounts for selected health care services, showing both the amount paid by the health insurer or other payer and the amount of the member’s responsibility, and shall allow the consumer to sort the information by geographic location, by health care provider, by payer type, and by the specific health care procedure or health care service. The Board shall provide a link on the dashboard to the statewide comparative hospital quality report published by the Commissioner of Health pursuant to section 9405b of this title.
(b) The Board shall update the information in the interactive price transparency dashboard at least annually. (Added 2019, No. 159 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)