Bloomfield insurer Cigna Corp. has signed its latest collaborative accountable care compact with Texas-based Village Health Partners.
Under the program, Village Health Partners, which is a primary care practice that serves more than 40,000 patients throughout North Texas, will monitor and coordinate all aspects of an individual’s medical care?
Cigna will compensate Village Health Partners for the medical and care coordination services it provides. Additionally, the medical group may be rewarded through a “pay for performance”
Cigna now has 52 collaborative accountable care initiatives in 22 states, encompassing nearly 510,000 Cigna customers and more than 14,000 doctors.
Cigna launched its first collaborative accountable care program in 2008 and its goal is to have 100 of them in place with 1 million customers by the end of 2014.
