More Than 40 Orthopaedic Physicians at HJD Now Participating with UnitedHealthcare and Oxford Health Plans

June 01, 2009

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 orthopaedic physicians participating in UnitedHealthcare and Oxford Health Plans' provider network in New York City. 

Under the new agreement, UnitedHealthcare and its Oxford Health Plan and Medicare plan participants will have in-network access to more than 40 orthopaedic 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, MD, the Walter A.L. Thompson Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic 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."

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