Pine County board votes to end Blue Cross care-coordination delegation agreement
Summary
After an advisory-committee recommendation, Pine County commissioners voted to terminate the Blue Cross Blue Shield care-coordination delegation agreement at year-end; three staff who handled the program will be reassigned to mandated county services, county officials said.
County administrator Dave Mankie told commissioners the Health & Human Services advisory committee recommended terminating the Blue Cross Blue Shield care-coordination delegation agreement at the end of the year so the three staff dedicated to that work can be redeployed to mandated services such as choices assessments and other home- and community-based services.
Becky Fossman explained the county has been providing Blue Cross care coordination for older adults through a delegation arrangement and that the decision relieves Pine County of a nonmandated activity while frontline mandated work remains behind. The board moved and voted to terminate the agreement; a roll-call vote was not recorded in the transcript and approval was by voice vote.
No immediate staffing layoff was stated: county officials said the three staff performing care coordination would shift to mandated service work, and that Blue Cross would contract with an outside provider (for example, Lutheran Social Services) to pick up the delegated work in the future. The motion passed by voice vote with no recorded dissents.
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