Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9381
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 9381
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- Board: means the Green Mountain Care Board established in this chapter. See
- Green Mountain Care: means the public-private universal health care program designed to provide health benefits through a simplified, uniform, single administrative system pursuant to 33 Vt. See
- Health insurer: means any health insurance company, nonprofit hospital and medical service corporation, managed care organization, and, to the extent permitted under federal law, any administrator of a health benefit plan offered by a public or a private entity. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: means any individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, the U. See
§ 9381. Appeals
(a) The Green Mountain Care Board shall adopt procedures for administrative appeals of its actions, orders, or other determinations. Such procedures shall provide for the issuance of a final order and the creation of a record sufficient to serve as the basis for judicial review pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Any person aggrieved by a final action, order, or other determination of the Green Mountain Care Board may, upon exhaustion of all administrative appeals available pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, appeal to the Supreme Court pursuant to the Vermont Rules of Appellate Procedure.
(c) If an appeal or other petition for judicial review of a final order is not filed in connection with an order of the Green Mountain Care Board pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the Chair may file a certified copy of the final order with the clerk of a court of competent jurisdiction. The order so filed has the same effect as a judgment of the court and may be recorded, enforced, or satisfied in the same manner as a judgment of the court.
(d) A decision of the Board’s approving, modifying, or disapproving a health insurer‘s proposed rate pursuant to 8 V.S.A. § 4062 shall be considered a final action of the Board and may be appealed to the Supreme Court pursuant to subsection (b) of this section. (Added 2011, No. 48, § 3, eff. May 26, 2011; amended 2011, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), eff. May 16, 2012; 2013, No. 79, § 5m, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.)