Ascension decision to drop Scott & White Health Plan raises fear of shrinking options
WACO -- Ascension Providence’s decision to cut ties with Scott & White Health Plan has struck a nerve with community leaders such as Waco homebuilder Scott Bland, who wonders why Waco’s two largest healthcare providers apparently can’t get along.
Bland, immediate past president of the Heart of Texas Builders Association and member of the Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce board, said he’d like to know more about why Ascension Providence decided to cancel its contract with Scott & White Health Plan, effective Sept. 1. And he’d like the chamber to address the split before it causes thousands of people to lose healthcare choices.
He said the decision impacts him personally as his wife, Lisa Bland, oversees Baylor Scott & White Medical Center’s pediatric clinic, and the family has its namesake health plan, but their doctor is Jeffrey Arnold, affiliated with Ascension Providence.
“I see him at the Providence clinic on Sanger Avenue,” Scott Bland said. He’s great. I love him to death. He even lives in my neighborhood. He knows my medical history, treated me for my bout with flu this year.”
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