MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont's Green Mountain Care Board has approved a $620 million budget for OneCare Vermont.
The budget approved Thursday marks the beginning of a five-year experiment to transform health care in the state. The Burlington Free Press reports the new plan to lower the overall cost of health care will have doctors paid whether their patients are sick or not.
The OneCare system will pay primary care providers fixed monthly payments.
Starting in January, 122,000 people, or about one in every five Vermonters, will come under the OneCare system.
