Tech spending slashed in Medicaid administration budget

Cory Gustafson, the commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, testifies in front of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee in January 2017. File photo by Erin Mansfield/VTDigger
Officials have cut $22.5 million from the Department of Vermont Health Access proposed budget for next fiscal year.
But the reduction is not all that it seems, Commissioner Cory Gustafson told the House Appropriations Committee Thursday.
Rather than slicing deep into staff or programs, Gustafson