Trinity Health and Anthem Announce Multi-Year Contract with Enhanced Value-Based Health Care and Improved Data Connectivity

Trinity Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, and leading health benefits company Anthem Blue Cross and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Anthem) announced today a new, multi-year provider network agreement. The agreement secures long-term access to affordable health care for Trinity Health patients covered by Anthem.

As part of the agreement, the two organizations will accelerate their collaboration on several innovative initiatives, including advance data connectivity and value-based care (VBC) models designed to improve health outcomes and better control costs for Trintiy Health patients covered by Anthem health plans.

Trinity Health and Anthem will incorporate Epic Payer Platform into regular operations, a technology that will streamline secure patient data flow between the organizations, bolster operational efficiency, accelerate approval processes, and improve patient outcomes. The platform’s Clinical Data Exchange simplifies processes and reduces administrative burden for medical teams, allowing doctors to spend less time doing paperwork and more time treating patients.

“Our mission is truly at the heart of everything we do, whether in the clinical care setting partnering with patients to improve their health or reaching consensus with partners like Anthem to support access to the care people need, Stuart Kilpinen, Trinity Health’s senior vice president for payer strategy and product development said. “We are pleased to reach an agreement with Anthem without disruption to patient care and anticipate the positive impact the expanded agreement will have on our efforts to improve access to care and health outcomes as well as support for the care teams our patients know and trust.”

While Trinity Health and Anthem have long partnered on VBC delivery and quality-based payment models, the new agreement expands that work to include Anthem’s advanced VBC methodology. This represents further progress in moving toward healthcare models that align payment with improved health outcomes and reduced cost trends.

“Our shared focus on simplifying the health care ecosystem, removing barriers to care, and overcoming administrative hurdles for doctors and clinicians is a particularly rewarding aspect of our relationship with Trinity Health,” said Anthem Vice President of Networks Jordan Vidor. “Health plans and care providers have an obligation to pioneer new ways to partner to benefit our consumers and their employers, and to transcend the way things have been done in the past. This new agreement with Trinity Health establishes a real roadmap to do exactly that.”

In Anthem states, Trinity Health operates St. Agnes Medical Center in California, Trinity Health of New England in Connecticut, St. Mary’s Health Care System in Georgia, St. Joseph Health System in Indiana, St. Peter’s Health Partners in New York, and Mount Carmel Health System in Ohio.