Aetna has picked up valuable new contracts and saw some execs depart in recent weeks. Here are eight stories about the Hartford, Conn.-based payer Becker's has covered since Nov. 11.
- Munster, Ind.-based Community Healthcare System and Aetna agreed to extend their current contract through October, avoiding a split that would have left Aetna commercial and Medicare Advantage members out of network.
- Aetna won a contract to manage health insurance for more than 740,000 North Carolina state employees, taking over a spot BCBS North Carolina has held for over 40 years. The contract includes healthcare spending of more than $17.5 billion over five years. Aetna's term begins in 2025.
- Ngoc Trang, former Aetna vice president of group Medicare and actuarial and underwriting, departed to become senior vice president and chief actuary at AmeriHealth Caritas.
- Aetna is one of 27 payers that will display CMS' new "birthing-friendly" hospital designation in their provider directories.
- Aetna moved out of an 83,512-square-foot call center in Bethlehem, Pa. A spokesperson for CVS Health, Aetna's parent company, told The Morning Call most employees working at the call center began working remotely during the pandemic and continue to do so.
- Aetna and Allentown, Pa.-based Lehigh Valley Health Network reached a new deal, avoiding a contract split that would have affected thousands of patients. The agreement took effect Nov. 18.
- John Stelben, previously CFO of governance services at Aetna, departed the payer to join eHealth as CFO Nov. 14.
- Crossover Health and Aetna partnered to bring in-person and virtual value-based primary care to employer-sponsored health plans in the Seattle area. The pilot program, Aetna Advance Primary Health, is available to self-insured employers and businesses as of Jan. 1