Aetna announced a new collaborative agreement with Community Care Physician Network, LLC (CCPN), to develop innovative ways to transform how health care is delivered in North Carolina.
Beginning in January 2018, Aetna will combine its expertise in alternative value-based delivery models with CCPN independent physicians’ advanced medical homes in association with the care management expertise of Community Care of North Carolina, Inc. (CCNC). Together, they will develop innovative ways to deliver health care to Aetna’s Medicare Advantage members in rural areas of North Carolina.
“Aetna has a long history of working with provider groups to create solutions that improve the health care experience and outcomes for our members,” said Jim Bostian, market president for Aetna in North Carolina. “We are excited to work CCPN and CCNC to serve our Medicare Advantage members, particularly those who reside in areas outside of the urban markets.”
“Both Aetna and CCNC believe that a national insurance carrier and a local primary care network working together can improve quality, make the health care experience easier, make care more efficient and reduce health care costs,” said L. Allen Dobson, Jr., MD, CEO of CCNC. ‘We’re looking forward to this new collaboration.”
Denise Levis-Hewson, Chief Operating Officer of CCPN said, “This is an opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of a high-performing primary care network with Aetna’s Medicare Advantage membership and we believe this experience will also prepare independent primary care physicians, in partnership with Aetna, for the eventual move to Medicaid managed care in the future.”
Adds Laurie Brubaker, president and CEO of Aetna Medicaid, “This agreement aligns with the changes taking place in health care right now both in the state and nationwide, and we look forward to working with CCPN and CCNC to develop a health care delivery system that will drive sustainable improvements for Aetna’s members in 2018 and in the future.”
More details on this new agreement will be available in the coming months.
