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18 V.S.A. § 2202
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 50 - Home Health Services|§ 2202. Contracts for departmental programs and services

§ 2202. Contracts for departmental programs and services|(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of 3 V.S.A. chapter 13, the Department may enter into agreements with a private or public organization for such organization to provide services or conduct programs for the benefit of the public which the Department by law is authorized to provide or conduct if the Department of Health finds that the organization is properly equipped and qualified for this purpose.(b) This section shall apply to all services and programs which the Department conducts under this chapter, including the initiation of new combinations of public health and home health nursing services. (Added 1969, No. 217 (Adj. Sess.), eff. March 27, 1970; amended 1977, No. 144 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. March 28, 1978.)
18 V.S.A. § 2203
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 50 - Home Health Services|§ 2203. Collection of fees

§ 2203. Collection of fees|The Department may provide home health care services, including public health nursing and other therapeutic services, to the public in geographical areas where such services are not otherwise available through public or private organizations, and may collect fees for such services where such service is of the type authorized under Pub. L. No. 89-97, the Social Security Amendments of 1965. (Added 1969, No. 217 (Adj. Sess.), eff. March 27, 1970.)
18 V.S.A. § 2251
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 51 - Lien for Services Rendered Accident Victims|§ 2251. Lien established

§ 2251. Lien established|A hospital in Vermont, as defined in section 1801 of this title, furnishing medical or other service, including charges of private duty nurses, to a patient injured by reason of an accident not covered by the Workers' Compensation Act, 21 V.S.A. § 601 et seq., shall have a lien upon any recovery for damages to be received by the patient, or by his or her heirs or personal representatives in the case of his or her death, whether by judgment or by settlement or compromise after the date of the services. This lien shall not attach to one-third of the recovery or $500.00, whichever shall be the lesser, and in addition the lien shall be subordinate to an attorney's lien. (Added 1963, No. 209, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1963; amended 1981, No. 165 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
18 V.S.A. § 2252
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 51 - Lien for Services Rendered Accident Victims|§ 2252. Notice

§ 2252. Notice|The lien shall not be effective, however, unless a written notice containing the name and address of the injured person, the date of the accident, the name and location of the hospital, and the name of the person alleged to be liable is filed in the office of the clerk of the town in which the hospital is located, before the payment of any monies to the injured person, his or her attorneys, or legal representatives as compensation for the injuries; nor unless the hospital also mails, postage prepaid, a copy of the notice with a statement of the date of filing thereof to the injured person, and to the person alleged to be liable before payment to the injured person, his or her attorneys, or legal representative of compensation for the injuries. The hospital shall mail a copy of the notice to any insurance carrier which has insured the person against liability for the accident. (Added 1963, No. 209, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1963.)
18 V.S.A. § 2253
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 51 - Lien for Services Rendered Accident Victims|§ 2253. Liability

§ 2253. Liability|A person making payment to the patient or to his or her attorneys or heirs or legal representatives as compensation for the injury sustained, after the filing and mailing of the notice without paying to the hospital the amount of its lien or so much thereof as can be satisfied out of the monies due after any final judgment or compromise or settlement agreement after paying the amount of any prior liens, shall, for one year from the date of payment, be liable to the hospital for the amount which the hospital was entitled to receive; and the hospital may, within that year, enforce its lien by a civil action against the person making any such payment. Provided, however, that unless said action is brought within said year, such lien shall be void. (Added 1963, No. 209, § 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1963.)
18 V.S.A. § 2254
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 51 - Lien for Services Rendered Accident Victims|§ 2254. Hospital lien docket

§ 2254. Hospital lien docket|Every town clerk shall, at the expense of the town, provide a suitable well-bound book to be called the hospital lien docket in which, upon the filing of any lien claim under this chapter, he or she shall enter the name of the injured person, the name of the person alleged to be liable for the injuries, the date of the accident, and the name of the hospital or other institution making the claim. The clerk shall index the docket in the name of the injured person and the hospital. (Added 1963, No. 209, § 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1963.)
18 V.S.A. § 2255
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 51 - Lien for Services Rendered Accident Victims|§ 2255. Extension of lien

§ 2255. Extension of lien|In the event that a hospital entitled to a lien hereunder shall have served a notice as provided for by 33 V.S.A. § 821, the lien herein provided for shall extend to the town receiving such notice, provided that the town so served shall follow the provisions of sections 2252 and 2253 of this title. (Added 1963, No. 209, § 5, eff. Oct. 1, 1963.)
18 V.S.A. § 2256
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 51 - Lien for Services Rendered Accident Victims|§ 2256. Discharge

§ 2256. Discharge|The hospital or town asserting a lien pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall, within 30 days from the date its claim is satisfied, file its certificate of discharge with the town clerk where the lien is filed, and the town clerk shall make proper entry and index of the discharge in the hospital lien docket. All fees for recording of notices or discharges shall be at the expense of the hospital or town filing the same. (Added 1963, No. 209, § 6, eff. Oct. 1, 1963.)
18 V.S.A. § 3801
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 79 - Pharmacy Audits|§ 3801. Definitions

§ 3801. Definitions|As used in this subchapter:  (1)(A) "Health insurer" shall have the same meaning as in section 9402 of this title and shall include:   (i) a health insurance company, a nonprofit hospital and medical service corporation, and health maintenance organizations; (ii) an employer, a labor union, or another group of persons organized in Vermont that provides a health plan to beneficiaries who are employed or reside in Vermont; and (iii) except as otherwise provided in section 3805 of this title, the State of Vermont and any agent or instrumentality of the State that offers, administers, or provides financial support to State government.  (B) The term "health insurer" shall not include Medicaid or any other Vermont public health care assistance program.  (2) "Health plan" means a health benefit plan offered, administered, or issued by a health insurer doing business in Vermont. (3) "Pharmacy" means any individual or entity licensed or registered under 26 V.S.A. chapter 36. (4) "Pharmacy benefit management" means an arrangement for the procurement of prescription drugs at a negotiated rate for dispensation within this State to beneficiaries, the administration or management of prescription drug benefits provided by a health plan for the benefit of beneficiaries, or any of the following services provided with regard to the administration of pharmacy benefits:  (A) mail service pharmacy; (B) claims processing, retail network management, and payment of claims to pharmacies for prescription drugs dispensed to beneficiaries; (C) clinical formulary development and management services; (D) rebate contracting and administration; (E) certain patient compliance, therapeutic intervention, and generic substitution programs; and (F) disease or chronic care management programs.  (5) "Pharmacy benefit manager" means an entity that performs pharmacy benefit management. The term includes a person or entity in a contractual or employment relationship with an entity performing pharmacy benefit management for a health plan. (6) "Responsible party" means the entity, including a health insurer or pharmacy benefit manager, responsible for payment of claims for health care services other than:  (A) the individual to whom the health care services were rendered; (B) that individual's guardian or legal representative; or (C) the Agency of Human Services, its agents, and contractors. (Added 2011, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 2013, No. 79, § 18, eff. Jan. 1, 2014.)
18 V.S.A. § 3803
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 79 - Pharmacy Audits|§ 3803. Appeals

§ 3803. Appeals|(a) An entity that audits a pharmacy shall provide the pharmacy with a preliminary audit report, which shall be delivered to the pharmacy or to its corporate office of record within 60 days following completion of the audit.(b) A pharmacy shall have 30 days following receipt of the preliminary audit report in which to respond to questions, provide additional documentation, and comment on and clarify audit findings. Receipt of the report shall be based on the date postmarked on the envelope or the date of a computer transmission, if transferred electronically.(c) If an audit results in the dispute or denial of a claim, the entity conducting the audit shall allow the pharmacy to resubmit the claim using any commercially reasonable method, including U.S. mail, facsimile, or electronic claims submission, as long as the period of time during which a claim may be resubmitted has not expired.(d) Within 120 days after the completion of the appeals process established by this section, a final audit report shall be delivered to the pharmacy or to its corporate office of record. The final audit report shall include a disclosure of any funds recovered by the entity that conducted the audit.(e) An entity that audits a pharmacy shall have in place a written appeals process by which a pharmacy may appeal the preliminary audit report and the final audit report, and shall provide the pharmacy with notice of the appeals process.(f) A pharmacy shall be entitled to request a mediator agreed upon by both parties to resolve any disagreements; such request shall not be deemed to waive any existing rights of appeal. (Added 2011, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
18 V.S.A. § 3804
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 79 - Pharmacy Audits|§ 3804. Pharmacy audit recoupments

§ 3804. Pharmacy audit recoupments|(a) Recoupment of any disputed funds shall occur only after the final internal disposition of an audit, including the appeals process set forth in section 3803 of this title.(b) An entity conducting an audit may not:  (1) include dispensing fees in calculations of overpayments unless the prescription is determined to have been dispensed in error; (2) recoup funds for clerical or recordkeeping errors, including typographical errors, scriveners' errors, and computer errors on a required document or record unless the error resulted in overpayment or the entity conducting the audit has evidence that the pharmacy's actions reasonably indicate fraud or other intentional or willful misrepresentation; (3) collect any funds, charge-backs, or penalties until the audit and all appeals are final, unless the entity conducting the audit is alleging fraud or other intentional or willful misrepresentation; (4) recoup an amount in excess of the actual overpayment.   (c) Recoupment on an audit shall be refunded to the responsible party as contractually agreed upon by the parties.(d) The entity conducting the audit may charge or assess the responsible party, directly or indirectly, based on amounts recouped if both of the following conditions are met:  (1) the responsible party and the entity conducting the audit have entered into a contract that explicitly states the percentage charge or assessment to the responsible party; and (2) a commission or other payment to an agent or employee of the entity conducting the audit is not based, directly or indirectly, on amounts recouped. (Added 2011, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
18 V.S.A. § 3805
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 79 - Pharmacy Audits|§ 3805. Applicability

§ 3805. Applicability|The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any audit or investigation undertaken by any State agency, including the Office of the Attorney General or the Agency of Human Services, to a fiscal agent of the State, or to any audit, review, or investigation that involves alleged Medicaid fraud, Medicaid waste, Medicaid abuse, insurance fraud, or criminal fraud or misrepresentation. (Added 2011, No. 150 (Adj. Sess.), § 4.)
18 V.S.A. § 4023
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4023. Bread to be wrapped

§ 4023. Bread to be wrapped|A person shall not carry or cart about with intent to sell or offer for sale, or deliver to customers after it has been sold, for human food any kind or quality of bread or cake in loaf form, unless each loaf is wrapped separately in waxed paper, tissue paper, or some similar wrapper or a sanitary container of sufficient thickness and quality to protect the bread and cake from dust and dirt. A person who violates a provision of this section shall be fined $5.00 for each offense.
18 V.S.A. § 4024
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4024. Wood or methyl alcohol; sale for medicinal purposes

§ 4024. Wood or methyl alcohol; sale for medicinal purposes|(a) A person shall not sell, offer, or expose for sale or have in his or her custody, possession, or control with intent to distribute or sell any commodity, food, drug, preparation, or mixture of any kind whatever intended for internal use, which contains methyl or wood alcohol, or sell, offer, or expose for sale or distribution, or have in his or her custody, possession, or control with intent to distribute, sell, furnish, or use upon or apply to the body of another, any drug, hair tonic, bay rum, or similar preparation intended for external use, which contains methyl or wood alcohol. Nothing in this section shall apply to veterinary remedies containing methyl or wood alcohol when such remedies are plainly and distinctly labeled in such manner as to indicate that they are intended solely for external use on animals.(b) A person who violates a provision of this section shall be imprisoned not more than three months or fined not more than $100.00 nor less than $5.00, or both. (Amended 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23.)
18 V.S.A. § 4025
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4025. Regulation of the sale of poisonous drugs

§ 4025. Regulation of the sale of poisonous drugs|A person other than a registered pharmacist or physician, who sells or keeps for sale arsenic, corrosive sublimate, chloroform, aconite, strychnine, morphine, opium, cocaine, eucaine, heroin, carbolic acid, prussic acid, paregoric, chloral hydrate, belladonna, cyanide potassium, digitalis, nux vomica, or any salts, solutions, extracts, or tinctures of such drugs, shall keep and offer them for sale only in original and sealed packages or bottles which shall have been prepared by a registered pharmacist or manufacturing chemist, and under a label on which shall be plainly printed the name and nature of the drug therein contained, the proper antidote to be given when taken in dangerous or poisonous quantities, and the name of the pharmacist, manufacturing chemist, or wholesale house that prepared or put up the same, with the name of the place where it was manufactured or prepared for sale. A person who sells any of such drugs shall have affixed to the bottle, box, or wrapper containing the article sold a label of white paper upon which shall be printed in red letters the name and place of business of the vendor, and the words "Poison" and "Antidote." The label shall also contain the name of an antidote, if any, for the poison sold.
18 V.S.A. § 4026
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4026. Sale of drugs; record

§ 4026. Sale of drugs; record|When a sale is made by any person of any of such drugs, salts, solutions, extracts, or tinctures, such sale shall be entered and recorded in a book kept for that purpose, giving the name of the article sold, date of sale, to whom sold, residence of purchaser, for whom purchased, the use to be made of the article or drug purchased, and the name of the salesperson or clerk making such sale. Such book shall be in such form as the Board shall prescribe and shall be open to the inspection of health officers, members of the Board, and prosecuting officers who may wish to examine the same. The provisions of this section shall not apply to compounds or preparations labeled according to other provisions of this chapter. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)
18 V.S.A. § 4027
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4027. Penalty

§ 4027. Penalty|A person who violates a provision of section 4026 of this title shall be fined not more than $100.00.
18 V.S.A. § 4028
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4028. Prescriptions

§ 4028. Prescriptions|The provisions of sections 4025-4027 of this title shall not apply to legally qualified practitioners of medicine or to their prescriptions or recipes to their patients.
18 V.S.A. § 4029
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4029. Permit to use preservatives

§ 4029. Permit to use preservatives|Nothing in this title shall be so construed as to prevent the Board from issuing to a producer or manufacturer of food or drinks a permit to use such preservatives or coloring matters as the Board may determine are not detrimental to health. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)
18 V.S.A. § 4030
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4030. Embargo, penalty

§ 4030. Embargo, penalty|When it is found or there is probable cause to believe that an article of food or a drug is in violation of the provisions of this title, the Board or its authorized representative may embargo the distribution, sale, use, or transportation of such article until directions for its disposal shall be given by the Board or by action of court. A person, partnership, or corporation who moves, sells, or otherwise disposes of any article so embargoed shall be punished as provided in section 6 of this title. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)
18 V.S.A. § 4031
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 81 - Pure Foods and Drugs|§ 4031. Notice of violations of United States statutes

§ 4031. Notice of violations of United States statutes|The board or an agent thereof shall notify the proper prosecuting officer of a violation of a federal law for preventing the adulteration or misbranding of food or drugs. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 70.)
18 V.S.A. § 4052
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 82 - Labeling of Foods, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Hazardous Substances|§ 4052. Manufacture, sale, delivery; prohibitions

§ 4052. Manufacture, sale, delivery; prohibitions|The following acts and the causing thereof within the State of Vermont are hereby prohibited:  (1) the manufacture, sale, or delivery, holding, or offering for sale of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded; (2) the adulteration or misbranding of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic; (3) the receipt in commerce of any food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded, and the delivery or proffered delivery thereof for pay or otherwise; (4) the sale, delivery for sale, holding for sale, or offering for sale of any article in violation of section 4061 or 4065 of this title; (5) the dissemination of any false advertisement; (6) the refusal to permit entry or inspection, or to permit the taking of a sample, as authorized by section 4070 of this title; (7) the giving of a guaranty or undertaking which guaranty or undertaking is false, except by a person who relied on a guaranty or undertaking to the same effect signed by and containing the name and address of the person residing in the State of Vermont from whom he or she received in good faith the food, drug, device, or cosmetic; (8) the removal or disposal of a detained or embargoed article in violation of section 4055 of this title; (9) the alteration, mutilation, destruction, obliteration, or removal of the whole or any part of the labeling of, or the doing of any other act with respect to a food, drug, device, or cosmetic, if such act is done while such article is held for sale and results in such article being adulterated or misbranded; (10) forging, counterfeiting, simulating, or falsely representing, or without proper authority using any mark, stamp, tag, label, or other identification device authorized or required by regulations promulgated under the provisions of this chapter; (11) the using, on the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to such drug, of any representation or suggestion that any application with respect to such drug is effective under section 4065 of this title, or that such drug complies with the provisions of such section; (12) The sale, offering for sale, distribution, or transportation for sale within this State of any misbranded package of a hazardous substance in a package or container intended for general home and household use. (Added 1959, No. 172, § 3, eff. May 12, 1959; amended 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 72.)
18 V.S.A. § 4054
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 82 - Labeling of Foods, Drugs, Cosmetics, and Hazardous Substances|§ 4054. Penalties

§ 4054. Penalties|(a) A person who violates any of the provisions of section 4052 of this title shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both; but if the violation is committed after a conviction of the person under this section has become final, the person shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $2,500.00, or both.(b) A person shall not be subject to the penalties of subsection (a) of this section for having violated subdivision 4052(1) or (3) of this title if he or she establishes a guaranty or undertaking signed by, and containing the name and address of the person residing in the State of Vermont from whom he or she received in good faith the article, to the effect that the article is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this chapter, designating this chapter.(c) No publisher, radio broadcast licensee, or agency or medium for the dissemination of an advertisement, except the manufacturer, packer, distributor, or seller of the article to which a false advertisement relates, shall be liable under this section by reason of the dissemination by him or her of such false advertisement, unless he or she has refused, on the request of the Board, to furnish the Board the name and post office address of the manufacturer, packer, distributor, seller, or advertising agency, residing in the State of Vermont, who causes him or her to disseminate such advertisement. (Added 1959, No. 172, § 5, eff. May 12, 1959; amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)