BRATTLEBORO — Ask administrators at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital about a multimillion-dollar operating budget shortfall and they’ll point to everything from too many unpaid patient bills to their own staff’s rising health insurance costs.

“We fully recognize that we are in a very bad financial condition,” one hospital official said at an Aug. 6 budget review hearing. “We need to increase cash and decrease our payables and receivables.”

Vermont health care regulators, for their part, cite a bigger problem: fiscal figures they say don’t add up.

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“BMH has not accurately or completely answered many questions,” the s

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