Cigna launches CareAllies IT and analytics services firm to help hospitals transition to value-based care
Cigna on Tuesday launched CareAllies Inc. to offer analytics, advisory and management services for hospitals transitioning to value-based care.
Not to be confused with Cigna’s CareAllies brand, the new company enables Cigna to serve an employer's entire population, regardless of which carrier provides the medical coverage.
"Some [customers] will need us to provide or build core capabilities, and we will also work collaboratively with provider clients that already have those capabilities in place to help them achieve greater physician alignment and clinical integration,” CareAllies Inc. President Julian Harris, MD, said in a statement.
To that end, CareAllies Inc. combines assets from Cigna, Cigna-HealthSpring's management services division for independent physician associations and QualCare Alliance Networks Inc., which Cigna acquired in 2015.
Cigna has partnered with healthcare providers for years to help them align financial incentives with patient health outcomes, resulting in success in joint shared risk, the insurer said.
The legacy CareAllies, which offers consumer health improvement programs such as disease and lifestyle management and health coaching, to employer clients for years, is separate from the new CareAllies Inc., which operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cigna.
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