BVIHSA owed approx. $28M – newly installed CEO
“One of the major issues again,” she said “we have a large number of accounts receivables that are on the street.”
While stating that there was currently an in-house collector in place, she explained that this number would be boosted with the addition of one other staff in the interim in hopes that the Authority could be more aggressive in retrieving the outstanding amounts.
“We do welcome persons to contact our financial office to make payment plans,” said Mrs Carty-Baptiste. “We’re not being unreasonable but we’re asking persons to make commitments to the Authority to address their outstanding obligations.”
The Authority hopes to base its collection model with islands within the eastern Caribbean in areas such as restrictions, limitations and legal recourse for those persons who have large outstanding obligations.
Mrs Carty-Baptiste met with members of the East End/Long Look community for the first time last evening November 1, 2012 as the Authority made a second attempt at an outreach in the area in the recent past.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the BVIHSA, Bishop John I. Cline, while disclosing the pending implementation of a new fee structure, among a host of other initiatives in store from the Authority, revealed there were discussions held at the board level to have a payment plan system implemented for persons that have defaulted in payment of their accounts.
He added, “it will come to a point, if people are not responsive to our effort, then we will have to resort to legal means.”
Chairman Cline earlier said “we can deliver healthcare, but we need your help in improving the system”. It was therefore important that those “who can pay, [should] pay, let us not try to get around the system,” he added.
He also disclosed the development of a “Friends of the BVI Health Services Authority Programme” for the cash strapped entity; describing this as a programme where gift givers and philanthropists and those who want to contribute something could do so. “We are asking that… you become a gift-giver,” he encouraged.
Mrs Carty-Baptiste earlier requested the community’s indulgence for the next three months as she tries to framework the organisation to address their concerns.
Residents were given an opportunity to voice their concerns and opinions of the services provided by the Health Services Authority and to discuss the plans that they intended to implement for the community.
This time around the event proved to be much better attended.
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