UnitedHealthcare and United Resource Networks Announce New Multi-Year Agreement With Froedtert & Community Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin
Posted on: Wednesday, 4 October 2006, 18:00 CDT
UnitedHealthcare and its transplant company, United Resource Networks, have reached new multi-year agreements with Froedtert & Community Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The new agreements mean that all UnitedHealthcare members will continue to have network access to affordable, quality health care services from Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa and Community Memorial Hospital in Menomonee Falls. The new multi-year agreements cover all commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid products.
The agreements with United Resource Networks are retroactive to September 1, 2006, ensuring continuity of coverage for transplant patients who were already receiving care through these facilities. The UnitedHealthcare agreement was reached a month in advance of the expiration of the contract and is effective as of November 1, 2006.
"This contract demonstrates UnitedHealth Group's long-standing commitment to working on behalf of consumers and employers to provide access to quality care at affordable prices, " said Jay Fulkerson, president and CEO of United Healthcare of Wisconsin. "We are pleased that, with these agreements, we can continue to provide our members with access to the most comprehensive network in Wisconsin."
About UnitedHealthcare and UnitedHealthcare of Wisconsin
UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services, helping more than 25 million individual consumers nationwide, and nearly 1 million throughout the state of Wisconsin achieve improved health and well-being through various health service systems. UnitedHealthcare arranges access to quality, affordable care with more than 500,000 physicians and care professionals and 4,600 hospitals across America, including more than 9,000 physicians and 74 hospitals throughout the state of Wisconsin. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of UnitedHealth Group, a diversified Fortune 50 health and well-being company. Other UnitedHealth Group businesses include Ovations, AmeriChoice, Uniprise, Specialized Care Services and Ingenix.
Source: Business Wire
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