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Title 18 : Health
Chapter 221 : Health Care Administration
Subchapter 007 : HOSPITAL BUDGET REVIEW
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 9451)-
§ 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) “Hospital network” means a system comprising two or more affiliated hospitals, and may include other health care professionals and facilities, that derives 50 percent or more of its operating revenue, at the consolidated network level, from Vermont hospitals and in which the affiliated hospitals deliver health care services in a coordinated manner using an integrated financial and governance structure.
(3) “Volume” means the number of inpatient days of care or admissions and the number of all inpatient and outpatient ancillary services rendered to patients by a hospital. (Added 1983, No. 93, § 1, eff. May 4, 1983; amended 1991, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 9, eff. May 11, 1992; 1995, No. 180 (Adj. Sess.), § 33; 2019, No. 140 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 6, 2020; 2025, No. 68, § 3a, eff. June 12, 2025.)
