Multi-Year Agreement between the Health Alliance and UnitedHealthcare Maintains Access to Health Care in Southwest Ohio

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.