University of Pennsylvania Health System will today announce an investment in an Independence Blue Cross subsidiary called Tandigm Health, which was founded in 2014 to help contracted primary care doctors improve care and cut costs by trying to proactively head off illnesses.
Penn will also add 275 of its primary care doctors and an additional 100 advanced practitioners to the 400 primary care physicians in Southeastern Pennsylvania who already have contracts with Tandigm, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Tandigm currently helps manage the care of 110,000 individuals for its doctors. Penn will add about 200,000 patients to that pool. Financial terms of Penn’s deal with West-Conshohocken-based Tandigm were not disclosed. The agreement takes effect Jan. 1. Read more.
