Thom Walsh News Today

Tensions were already high last month during the annual review of the University of Vermont Medical Center's budget when state regulator Owen Foster launched into...

Recent op-eds reveal concerns about excessive medical billing, doctor's pay, and medical "greed," supported by Dartmouth MPH Professors Fisher and Walsh's research, underlining the need to align incentives with evidence-based medicine for better U.S. health care.

The author shares observations on several common factors across various clinical settings that can determine success or failure in quality improvement.

Despite ongoing budget deficits, the health network that oversees the Burlington hospital still plans to use $18 million in remaining excess earnings from 2017 on mental health and wants feedback from regulators and others on the best use of those funds.

New members of the Green Mountain Care Board are pushing UVM Health Network’s accountable care organization to prove its value. Can it?

I heartily thank Green Mountain Care Board members Owen Foster and Thom Walsh for their pointed grilling of OneCares highly paid executives for one piece of evidence that OneCare has done any good for Vermonters.  As Owen Foster, the care board’s new chair, said, “Vermonters, either through taxpayer-funded health care groups, out-of-pocket expenses, copays or insurance, have borne the bulk of those staggering numbers. … And for that they deserve results.” We health care activists have b...

OneCare, the nonprofit that distributes millions of public and private health care dollars to providers throughout Vermont, has asked state regulators to greenlight a $15 million operating budget — a slight decrease from this year — as part of an...

OneCare’s CEO declined to share the organization’s key performance indicators with state regulators when asked at a hearing last week.

On Monday, Vermont health care regulators approved a new $1.9 billion budget for the state’s largest hospital — and once again, the hospital's leaders aren't...

Montpelier, Vt. – Governor Phil Scott today announced his appointment of Thom Walsh, PhD, MS, MSPT to the Green Mountain Care Board (GMBC).