The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and UnitedHealthcare have
agreed to sign a multi-year contract providing UnitedHealthcare members
with full access to Health Alliance physicians and hospitals in
Southwest Ohio, helping maintain UnitedHealthcare’s
broad range of options for quality health care.
The contract will be retroactive to Nov. 1, 2007.
The contract will cover the Health Alliance’s
University Hospital, Jewish Hospital, Fort Hamilton Hospital, Drake
Center, the 200 physicians of Alliance Primary Care and Cincinnati
Medical Imaging.
"This agreement renews our partnership with
the Health Alliance and allows us together to advance health care
quality and ease administration for the people we jointly serve,”
said Paul Brophy, executive director, UnitedHealthcare of Southwest
Ohio. "We can now move forward to build a
stronger relationship that is in the best interest of our community.” "We are very pleased to have reached a final
agreement that is so clearly beneficial for everyone involved,
particularly our patients, our physicians and our hospitals,”
said Tony Condia, vice president, Government & Public Relations, Health
Alliance. "With this new agreement,
UnitedHealthcare’s members –
our patients – can once again receive care
and treatment from what we consider to be Cincinnati’s
finest physicians and finest hospitals –
University Hospital, Jewish Hospital, Fort Hamilton Hospital and the
Drake Center.” About The Health Alliance
The Health Alliance is Greater Cincinnati's largest system of
not-for-profit, community-based hospitals. In 2006, the Health Alliance
spent $130 million on care provided to the community and the poor, and
$23 million with diverse suppliers. The Health Alliance includes The
Jewish Hospital, The University Hospital, The Fort Hamilton Hospital,
The Drake Center, The West Chester Medical Center and thirty Alliance
Primary Care offices throughout Greater Cincinnati. To read more about
the Health Alliance’s hospitals and services,
visit health-alliance.com.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com)
provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and
services. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health
care services on behalf of more than 26 million individual consumers,
contracting directly with more than 535,000 physicians and care
professionals and more than 4,700 hospitals nationwide to offer them
broad, convenient access to services nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one
of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
Fortune 50 health and well-being company.
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