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Duke switches health insurance for students, steering them to preferred providers
This summer, Duke University is switching providers for its Student Medical Insurance Plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to Aetna.
The new Aetna plan incentivizes the use of WakeMed, Cone Health, and the university’s own Duke Health system over other in-network medical providers. The Duke, Cone Health, and WakeMed systems are in a special tier dubbed Select Care, which comes with better deals compared to other in-network providers.
Some students are concerned this tiered system will increase costs for in-network providers and complicate access to care. North Carolina’s State Health Plan made a similar switch from Blue Cross to Aetna last year, and recent projections show the state will spend much more than it intended on the contract. Now, the plan has opened a new bidding process that could lead to another switch…