Vermont Health Insurance
Insure Kids Now! A national initiative to linking families to low-cost insurance programs
Now, you may have one less thing to worry about. Your state, and every state in the nation, has a health insurance program for infants, children and teens. The insurance is available to children in working families, including families that include individuals with a variety of immigration status. ( Materials are available that explain more about immigration and children's health insurance.) ... You work hard to provide for your children and want to make sure they grow up strong, smart and healthy. But like many parents whose children don't have health insurance, you worry about taking care of them. ... [Read More]
Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law, National Mental Health Information Center
Little evidence suggests the parity law had any significant effects on the Vermont insurance market. The survey indicated that Vermont employers did not drop their insurance coverage or self insure as a result of parity. Of the employers offering health insurance coverage as of January 1, 1998, the date the parity law went into effect, 0.3 percent (accounting for 0.07 percent of Vermont employees) reported dropping their coverage and cited parity as a main or important reason for that decision. About 4 percent of Vermont employers - which employed 8 percent of Vermont employees - switched one or more of their plans to a self-insured product since the implementation of parity. It is not possible, however, to attribute this trend to parity alone since employers were unable to report the role of parity relative to other factors. The survey further suggests that parity was not one of the primary cost drivers in recent health insurance premium increases. To the extent that employers were ab ... [Read More]
Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law, National Mental Health Information Center
Median Out-of-Pocket Payments as a Percent of Total Mental Health Charges Among Members With a Serious Mental Condition, by Level of Mental Health Charges: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, 1996 and 1999 ... Effects on the Number and Type of Health Plan Choices ... Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law ... [Read More]
Welcome - Vermont Department of Labor
Unemployment Insurance & Wages ... The Department of Labor consists primarily of three divisions: the Division of Workers' Compensation and Safety, the Division of Workforce Development, and the Division of Unemployment Insurance and Wages. An organizational chart is available on the website for your reference. ... [Read More]
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Banking, Insurance, Securities & Health Care Administration (Dept. of) ... Prevention, Assistance, Transition & Health Access (Dept. of)(AHS) - formerly Social Welfare ... Health & ... [Read More]
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Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law, National Mental Health Information Center
Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law Table B.1: Market Share of the Five Largest Health Plans in Vermont, 1998 and 2000 ... [Read More]
Effects of the Vermont Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity Law, National Mental Health Information Center
27 The 1996 Federal parity law applied only to health insurance sponsored by employers with more than 50 employees. It also only required that annual and lifetime dollar limits for mental health be equal to those for physical health coverage. The law did not eliminate disparities in deductibles, coinsurance, and visit or day limits for mental health services, nor did it cover substance abuse treatment (USGAO, 2000). ... 21 Specifically, the survey asked: "Was it increased utilization, cost-of-living adjustments, changes in types of health insurance plans offered, or another factor?" Nearly half of the initial responses were coded as "other," and a verbatim response was recorded. Where possible, these open-ended responses were recoded into the specified categories, and two additional categories were created: costs in general and government regulation. In addition, the category called "changes in types of health insurance plans offered" was expanded to include changes in the Vermont health insurance market. ... [Read More]
Welcome - Vermont Department of Labor
Unemployment Insurance Program provides partial wage replacement to laid off workers Wage and hour and child labor law information Employer services - employer accounts, experience ratings, quarterly reporting Program Integrity - ensures quality control throughout unemployment insurance system Employee Leasing - administration of Employee Leasing statute, including license application process ... Unemployment Insurance & Wages ... [Read More]
Welcome - Vermont Department of Labor
The Workers' Compensation system was established by the VermontLegislature in 1915 to compensate and protect employees who suffer personalinjury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment and to protectemployers by limiting their exposure from lawsuits arising out of such injuries.It is a "no-fault" insurance program that provides medical anddisability benefits for work-related injuries and illnesses. It coversboth traumatic injuries caused by sudden accidents and gradual onset injuriesresulting from repetitive motion or stress. The system offers five basiccategories of benefits: medical, temporary disability, permanency, vocationalrehabilitation and death benefits. Almost all of Vermont's 350,000 workersmust be covered by the system. Most employers secure coverage bypurchasing workers' compensation insurance. A limited class of employersmay be approved as self-insurers. ... [Read More]
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