Aetna, CHI to offer ‘accountable care’ plan to area businesses

[Omaha Steve]

Marta and I get our insurance from the City of Omaha. It is self insured. I'm sure they will be looking at this.


http://www.livewellnebraska.com/consumer/aetna-chi-to-offer-accountable-care-plan-to-area-businesses/article_29ebac41-0f06-5bc3-b0a9-49cbed707a45.html

Posted: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 1:00 am
By Steve Jordon / World-Herald staff writer

A new health care and insurance plan by Aetna and CHI Health, touted as cutting costs as much as 15 percent, will be available to some employers in the Omaha area starting June 1.

The plan, called Aetna Whole Health-CHI Health Accountable Care Network, will be sold to self-insured employers — those who pay health care costs themselves — and take effect July 1 in Burt, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Otoe, Sarpy, Saunders and Washington Counties. The plan would expand to more businesses in Nebraska and Iowa next year.

The plan is an “accountable care network,” which ties payments to doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to quality measures such as receiving preventive health screenings and avoiding emergency room visits and hospital readmissions.

“This is the future,” Dr. Cliff Robertson, CEO of CHI Health, told The World-Herald on Tuesday. “We will partner with any health plan that has the capability and the desire to move forward in the future with us.”

FULL story at link.