Datapoint: Elevance to Launch Virtual First Plans in Virginia, Connecticut
Elevance Health’s Anthem subsidiaries in Virginia and Connecticut will begin offering virtual first health plans to large employer groups (both full risk and self-funded) in 2024. Virtual first plans prioritize telehealth, offering $0 copays for virtual primary care and mental health visits via a digital health platform, which Anthem says offers “seamless” interoperability and data sharing between providers. Anthem also offers virtual first plans in California and Georgia. Elevance is currently the largest insurer in Virginia, with 498,749 members enrolled in full-risk large group plans, and 1,132,017 enrolled in self-funded plans. It also leads the Connecticut market, with 84,579 large group members and 715,749 self-funded.
Source: AIS’s Directory of Health Plans
