Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Quality Assurance

V.S.A. tit. 18, ch. 221, subch. 8

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18 V.S.A. § 9461 Quality measures

9461. Quality measures (a) The Department of Financial Regulation shall develop performance quality measures to evaluate and ensure that health insurers, including managed care organizations that contract with health insurers to administer the insurers’ mental health benefits, comply with the provisions of 8 V.S.A. § 4072 and related rules. (b) The Departments of Health and of Mental Health shall develop clinical and performance quality measures to evaluate and ensure that health care professionals and health care facilities in Vermont provide high quality mental health and substance abuse treatment services to their patients. Added 2011, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 11b, eff. May 16, 2012; amended 2015, No. 11, § 20.

18 V.S.A. § 9462 Quality improvement projects

9462. Quality improvement projects The Green Mountain Care Board shall consider the results of any quality improvement projects not otherwise confidential or privileged undertaken by managed care organizations for mental health and substance abuse care and treatment pursuant to subsection 9414(i) of this title. Added 2011, No. 171 (Adj. Sess.), § 11b, eff. May 16, 2012; amended 2025, No. 11, § 24, eff. Sept. 1, 2025.

Source: Vermont General Assembly (legislature.vermont.gov)URL: https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/chapter/18/221Fetched: 10/21/2026