Newswise — UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, has signed an expanded, multi-year agreement with the physicians of the Hospital for Joint Diseases (HJD) at NYU Langone Medical Center that doubles the number of orthopedic physicians participating in UnitedHealthcare and Oxford Health Plans' provider network in New York City.
Under the new agreement, UnitedHealthcare and it's Oxford Health Plan and Medicare plan participants will have in-network access to more than 40 orthopedic physicians affiliated with the Hospital for Joint Diseases " a designated UnitedHealth Premium Specialty Center for Surgical Spine and Total Joint Replacement. The agreement further expands UnitedHealthcare and Oxford's health care provider network of more than 38,000 physicians and 200 hospitals statewide.
"This new agreement doubles the number of our physicians participating with UnitedHealthcare on an in-network basis," said Joseph Zuckerman, M.D., the Walter A.L. Thompson Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the Hospital for Joint Diseases. "We are excited about our expanded relationship with UnitedHealthcare and look forward to continuing to serve its health plan customers."
"Our agreement with the physicians at the Hospital for Joint Diseases, a facility that focuses on evidence-based quality standards for care, will expand access to quality, affordable health care for our customers," said Dr. Sanford Cohen, chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare's northeast region. "We believe that productive, collaborative relationships between physicians, hospitals and payors are an important step in ensuring more people have convenient access to quality, cost-efficient care and in modernizing our nation's health care system."
About UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to individuals, public sector employers and businesses of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on behalf of more than 26 million individual consumers, contracting directly with approximately 590,000 physicians and care professionals and more than 4,900 hospitals 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.
About the Hospital for Joint Diseases at NYU Langone Medical Center One of the world's premier academic musculoskeletal medical institutions for more than 100 years, the Hospital for Joint Diseases (NYUHJD) at NYU Langone Medical Center is a leader in patient care, physician education and research. Additional information is available at www.nyuhjd.org.
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