House Committee on Health Care

 

AGENDA

 

Room 45

January 16, 2018 - January 19, 2018

Last Updated 1/18/2018 2:06 PM

 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

10:00 AM          FLOOR

 

11:00 AM          Government Accountability Committee Report

Committee discussion: State Outcomes Report, Government Accountability Committee: the indicator data that measure the State’s progress in reaching the outcomes (goals) the General Assembly has established for the State

 

12:00 PM          Lunch and Caucuses

 

2:00 PM          Agency of Human Services

Committee members will attend the hearing of the House Committee on Corrections and Institutions in Room 10:  the AHS Report on facilities.

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

9:00 AM          Population Health

Health Care Inequities

Heidi Klein, Director of Planning and Health Care Quality, Vermont Department of Health - Invited

 

10:30 AM          Pathways Vermont

Housing First--updates

Hilary Melton, Executive Director, Pathways Vermont

Lindsay Casale, Housing First Program Director, Pathways Vermont

 

12:00 PM          Lunch

 

1:00 PM          FLOOR

 

2:00 PM          No Committee Meeting Scheduled

 

3:00 PM          Health Insurance Mandate

Rep. Ann Pugh

Rep. Timothy Briglin

Jennifer Carbee, Legislative Counsel, Office of Legislative Council

Nolan Langweil, Senior Fiscal Analyst, Joint Fiscal Office

 

Thursday, January 18, 2018

9:00 AM          Health Care Affordability

Michael Fisher, Chief Advocate, Office of Health Care Advocate, Vt. Legal Aid

Eric Schultheis, Health Law and Policy Analyst, Office of Health Care Advocate, Vt. Legal Aid

 

10:45 AM          Climate Change and Health Care

Vermont Climate and Health Alliance.

Ruth Blauwiekel, University Veterinarian, University of Vermont

Don McIntyre, Founding member and first President, M.D., Vermont Dermatological Society

Dan Quinlan, Chair, Vermont Climate and Health Alliance

Ian Stokes, Research Professor Emeritus, Spinal Biomechanics, M.D., University of Vermont

Dr. Burton Wilcke, Retired Chair, Dept. of Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences, Ph.D., College of Nursing and Health Sciences, UVM

 

11:15 AM          Climate Change and Health Care

Committee discussion

 

12:00 PM          Lunch

 

1:00 PM          FLOOR

Debate on Budget Adjustment

 

3:00 PM          Accountable Care Organizations

DVHA-OneCare Pilot.

 

Michael Costa, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA)

Alicia Cooper, Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA)

Victoria Loner, Chief Operating Officer, OneCare Vermont

 

Friday, January 19, 2018

9:30 AM          FLOOR

 

10:30 AM          Vermont Coalition of Clinics for the Uninsured

[Testimony ends at 11:45 AM]

Peter Youngbaer, Executive Director, People's Health & Wellness Clinic

Heidi Sulis, Director, The Open Door Clinic, Middlebury

Lynn Raymond-Empey, Director, Valley Health Connections

 

12:00 PM          Lunch

 

12:15 PM          Tax Policy Workshop (optional)

12:15-1:15 PM, Room 10

 

1:30 PM          Mental Health Crisis Response Commission

Update from the Chair of the new Mental Health Crisis Response Commission

Wilda White, Executive  Director, Vermont Psychiatric Survivors