Regulators approve hospital budgets

Health care regulators have approved budgets for 14 Vermont hospitals, slightly decreasing the amount they sought to take in from patients and insurance companies.
The Green Mountain Care Board will allow the hospitals to increase patient care revenue by an average of 3.01 percent, and increase prices that patients and insurance companies pay by an average of 2.08 percent.
Those numbers are slight decreases from what the 14 hospitals originally sought: an average patient care revenue increase o