Mount Sinai Health Partners and Cigna Form New Collaborative Relationship
Mount Sinai Health Partners and Cigna (NYSE: CI) today announced a new collaborative care relationship designed to help improve access to health care, enhance care coordination and lower costs for Mount Sinai Health Partners patients enrolled in a Cigna health plan. Mount Sinai Health Partners is the clinically integrated network of the Mount Sinai Health System and is made up of Mount Sinai’s hospitals, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s full-time faculty, and other associated physicians.
The program is part of Cigna Collaborative Care, a value-based model that uses incentives to engage health care professionals and drive improved health, affordability and customer experience. Value-based care and population health are growing national trends representing a shift away from the historic health care model that focused on treating individual health events. These models align players in the health care system to focus on a person’s overall health and long-term outcomes.
The collaborative arrangement between Mount Sinai Health Partners and Cigna aims to close gaps in care, such as missed health screenings or prescription refills, reinforce the appropriate use of primary care doctors to increase the number of preventive health visits, and improve follow-up care for people transitioning from hospital to home.
“We are excited to provide high quality care for Cigna customers through our clinically integrated network,” said Niyum Gandhi, chief population health officer for the Mount Sinai Health System. “Mount Sinai Health Partners’ clinically integrated network is a collaboration among our primary care physicians and specialists to continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of health care services. By partnering with like-minded payers such as Cigna, Mount Sinai Health Partners is able to drive better population health, disease management and preventative care for our patients.”
“Cigna is excited that Mount Sinai Health Partners is now one of our 150 collaborative care relationships spanning 29 states,” said Tom Martel, President, Northeast Region for Cigna. “We have seen first-hand how our collaborative care arrangements enable us to better align with physician practices to help drive better health outcomes, reduce gaps in care, and lower costs for those we serve.”
About Cigna
Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and sense of security. All products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Life Insurance Company of North America, Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York, and their affiliates. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and other related products including group life, accident and disability insurance. Cigna maintains sales capability in 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has more than 90 million customer relationships throughout the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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