Fierce Healthcare June 26, 2019
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and North Memorial Health are teaming up for a joint primary care venture.
The insurer and health system announced the venture, which includes 20 clinics across the Twin Cities, this week. The primary care clinics will operate separately from both existing companies, with its own CEO and board of directors, under the North Memorial Health brand.
Craig Samitt, M.D., CEO of Blue Cross, told FierceHealthcare that the venture was born because the leaders of both shared the same “impatient” desire for change in healthcare.
“The point of the joint venture, in many respects, was to forge something shoulder-to-shoulder that was going to change the paradigm,” Samitt said.
Blue Cross will...