Cleveland Clinic, Aetna Team Up On Insurance Plan, ACO

The Cleveland Clinic and CVS-owned insurer Aetna are forming an accountable care organization and launching a co-branded health insurance plan for employers in northeast Ohio. A nationwide part of the initiative will offer Aetna commercial plan members access to virtual second opinion services from Cleveland Clinic providers.

They are also creating a Cardiac Center of Excellence program for plan sponsors nationwide. Employers often turn to COEs to control health care costs by incentivizing workers to go to a particular high-quality facility. The plans will be available to certain fully and self-insured employers in several Ohio counties . . .