Overview

• The agreement covers all Duke Health locations and providers for Aetna members across North Carolina.
• No financial terms were disclosed, with both organizations emphasizing future work on population health and value-based care.
• The State Health Plan had authorized procuring a transition-services vendor to help members if negotiations failed.
• State Treasurer Brad Briner and SHP executive Thomas Friedman praised the deal as preserving access and supporting affordability.
• Aetna administers the State Health Plan, its largest North Carolina customer, with about 22,000 members listing Duke as primary care and roughly 40,000 filing Duke claims this year.