From chronic disease management to mental health investments, these are 10 partnerships announced by health insurers within the last year:
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield and Scene Health expanded their existing partnership around medication adherence and disease management for Medicaid members.
- Humana and DUOS partnered on a new collaborative program to improve the healthcare experience and improve health outcomes for Louisiana Veteran members with chronic conditions.
- Aetna partnered with Monogram Health to begin offering in-home care services to its Medicare Advantage members with chronic kidney disease.
- Wellmark BCBS partnered with the University of Iowa on a risk management and insurance degree program to support an insurance talent pipeline and industry research in the state.
- Cigna Healthcare partnered with Virgin Pulse on a new platform through myCigna aimed at helping members make better health choices and develop better habits.
- The BCBS Association partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to combat the youth mental health crisis, including an investment of more than $10 million over four years to implement trauma-informed practices in more than 5,000 Clubs by 2026.
- Centene's Ambetter from Sunshine Health, the payer's ACA subsidiary in Florida, added Walmart Health centers to its preferred provider network. The new partnership will rollout in 7 counties in Florida through the Ambetter Value Plan and will initially focus on care coordination and referral management.
- Sidecar Health partnered with Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Co. to allow its members to fill prescriptions at any pharmacy based in the U.S.
- Blue Shield of California and Microsoft partnered on a cloud ecosystem that will integrate disparate sources of member data in a consolidated, near-real-time format.
- Independence Blue Cross partnered with financial services firm Sun Life to offer stop loss insurance to its self-funded group customers.