UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Mount Sinai Health System have agreed to a new multi-year contract that will prevent thousands of New Yorkers from losing access to network doctors.
The agreement reached Tuesday immediately restores access to the health system’s hospitals for people with employer-sponsored and individual plans, including the Oxford Health Plan, according to a statement on the UnitedHealth website.
Many of Mount Sinai’s hospitals left UnitedHealth’s insurance networks earlier this year due to a dispute over how much they should be paid for their services. Mount Sinai doctors were supposed to be out of network starting March 22.
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