Hartford health insurer Aetna said that it will offer a co-branded accountable care plan next year with Hartford Healthcare and the seven-hospital Value Care Alliance.
The plan will be called Aetna Whole Health – Hartford HealthCare & Value Care Alliance. The announcement follows recent signings by Aetna of ACO network agreements with both provider groups.
Plan participants will pay lower costs for receiving care from Hartford Healthcare and Value Care Alliance’s 13 hospitals. The network will include more than 3,500 doctors — including Hartford Healthcare’s Integrated Care Partners physician group — and 39 emergency room and urgent care locations, Aetna said.
“We have been working over the past two years to improve patient outcomes through more effective care coordination and management, which ultimately reduces health care costs,” Dr. James Cardon, CEO of Integrated Care Partners and chief clinical integration officer for HHC, said in a statement. “This agreement is one more advance in our shift from fee-for-service care, where physicians are paid for the number of things they do, to value-based care, where physicians and other providers are paid for the quality of care they deliver.”
Aetna’s website lists 22 Whole Health ACO offerings across the country, including one in Connecticut that includes ProHealth Physicians, Community Medical Group, and Saint Francis HealthCare Partners.
Hospitals in the new plan offering, which begins Jan. 1, will include Griffin Hospital in Derby, Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital, Hartford Hospital, The Hospital of Central Connecticut in Southington and New Britain, Midstate Medical Center in Meriden, William H. Backus Hospital in Norwich, and Windham Hospital.
