Letter: Approve of BCBSVT leaving OneCare Vermont
Approve of BCBSVT leaving OneCare Vermont
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Approve of BCBSVT leaving OneCare Vermont
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont issued a press release on Dec. 20, 2022, announcing it would forego its 2023 participation in OneCare Vermont, the state's sole Accountable Care Organization.
Primary care physicians, mental health counselors, home health caregivers and nurses desperately need more financial support and programmatic resources to serve and protect us. We must come to their aid.
Charges that patients see bear very little resemblance to the actual cost of delivering a specific service. For too long, we have allowed health care institutions to conflate charges with costs. This has resulted in the current health care financial environment.
The search committee, lead by Roger Katz, will hold public listening sessions Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 in Bangor and Augusta, respectively, to gather feedback about what faculty, staff and community members would like to see in a president.