This constitutes a drop in spending compared to fiscal year 2013 spending, which involved $141 million in new money with budgeted costs totaling $2.12 billion. The hospitals’ proposed 2014 budgets total $2.19 billion.
The Green Mountain Care Board — which Vermont lawmakers created in 2011 in part to regulate hospital budgets — had set a base target of 3 percent.
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