Aetna and Commonwealth Health Create Product-Based High-Performance Network
August 31 2016 - 8:45AM
Business Wire
Aetna (NYSE:AET) and Commonwealth Health are collaborating to
establish a high-performance network that includes the introduction
of a new health plan. The joint effort is aimed at improving the
quality of patient care, creating new choices for consumers, and
lowering overall health care costs.
Commonwealth Health and Northeast Pennsylvania Quality Health
Alliance, its clinically integrated physician network, will drive
efforts to optimize efficiency, coordinate care, and improve
communication with patients and providers.
”We’re excited to announce this collaboration with Commonwealth
Health,” said Remy Richman, executive director for Aetna in
Southeast and Northeast Pennsylvania. ”Aetna is working to provide
more healthy days for our members. We’re moving toward new
arrangements that reward hospitals and doctors for improving the
patient experience and delivering better outcomes.”
The Aetna Whole Health-Commonwealth Health plan will be
introduced in Northeast Pennsylvania later this year. The plan will
use Commonwealth Health’s group of independent and employed
physicians participating in the clinically integrated network,
which includes more than 400 providers.
“Commonwealth Health and our affiliated physicians are very
pleased to work with Aetna to continually improve the quality of
health care provided to our community,” said Cor Catena, CEO of
Commonwealth Health. “This collaboration will help ensure that our
patients benefit from our efforts to provide high-quality,
coordinated care at a reasonable cost.”
The Aetna-Commonwealth Health collaboration will offer consumers
better health care options by:
- Improving health care outcomes;
- Offering a competitive and affordable
plan that will save consumers money, and;
- Developing co-branded commercial health
care plans for businesses and consumers.
About Commonwealth Health
Commonwealth Health, the largest network of hospitals in
Northeastern Pennsylvania, continues to combine vast medical
resources to enhance the quality of patient care throughout the
region. Patients will benefit from an extended physician network
through recruitment of new physicians as well as the sharing of
specialists throughout the system. Working together, the hospitals
of Commonwealth Health will transform health care delivery in
Northeastern Pennsylvania through formalized centers of excellence
and through the sharing of best practices that meet nationally
recognized standards for quality, safety and patient
satisfaction.
Collectively, the hospitals of Commonwealth Health have earned
significant recognition for clinical care, including HealthGrades
awards and honors from U.S. News & World Report, the American
College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, and designation as one of
the first Epicenters for Robotic General Surgery in the country.
Each hospital brings unique resources to the community it
serves.
The health network includes 1,600 physicians, 6,500 employees,
and more than 1,300 beds, and has touched the lives of nearly two
million patients in its first year. Commonwealth Health hospitals
hold the leading market share in their primary service areas,
making the system the number one choice for care in Northeastern
Pennsylvania. For more information, visit
www.commonwealthhealth.net
About Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation's leading diversified health care
benefits companies, serving an estimated 46.3 million people with
information and resources to help them make better informed
decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of
traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance
products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental,
behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical
management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services,
workers' compensation administrative services and health
information technology products and services. Aetna's customers
include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time
and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers,
governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and
expatriates. For more information, see www.aetna.com and learn
about how Aetna is helping to build a healthier world.
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