Here are six jointly-owned health plans announced or launched since the beginning of 2017, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review.
1. Cleveland Clinic, Oscar Health to offer co-branded health plan
Cleveland Clinic will offer a joint health plan with New York City-based Oscar Health, marking the clinic's entrance into the health insurance market and Oscar's expansion into Ohio.
2. Sutter Health, Aetna to launch joint health plan
Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health and Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna will offer a jointly-owned health plan to residents in northern California next year.
3. Geisinger, Highmark sign LOI to create joint venture, health campus
Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System and Pittsburgh-based Highmark, a Blue Cross Blue Shield-affiliated organization, inked a letter of intent to establish a clinical joint venture.
4. Cigna, HealthCare Partners to offer joint health plan
Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna and HealthCare Partners in El Segundo, Calif. — a division of DaVita Medical Group — began offering Los Angeles-area employers joint health plans beginning April 1.
5. Allina Health, Aetna to create joint health plan
Aetna and Allina Health in Minneapolis inked a partnership to establish a jointly owned health plan as an option for employers and consumers in the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., region.
6. Cigna, Scripps Health align for employer health plan
Scripps Health in San Diego and Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna began offering employers in the San Diego area health maintenance organization joint health plans April 1.