WellStar, Piedmont Healthcare Partnering on Health Plan
The two health systems just last month formed a collaborative focused on the development of innovative healthcare delivery models.
Piedmont Healthcare and WellStar Health System have announced a partnership to develop a new health-system-based health insurance plan. The initial goals for the health plan include offering Medicare Advantage, commercial and self-funded products to the general public that will launch in 2014, as well as making the plan available to the two health systems’ combined employee and family base of more than 35,000. This partnership comes on the heels of last month’s announcement that the health systems had formed the Georgia Health Collaborative, a first of its kind in the state, focused on the development of innovative healthcare delivery models such as population management. Piedmont began development of a health-system-based health insurance…
