ORLANDO, Fla. (September 15, 2010) — UnitedHealthcare and Florida Hospital System have signed new agreements on the hospital and physician contracts, effective immediately, continuing uninterrupted access to the hospital systems’ facilities and physicians for UnitedHealthcare members. 

The new agreement extends coverage for UnitedHealthcare commercial customers, Medicare customers, including AARP Medicare Complete, Secure Horizons and Evercare by UnitedHealthcare, as well as Medicaid customers, including the Florida Healthy Kids program.  Florida Hospital is part of the Adventist Health System and operates 18 hospitals, 18 ancillary centers, including its Centra Care clinics, and 10 medical groups representing more than 400 physicians. 

“Florida Hospital System is an important provider of health care services in this region and we are very pleased that our customers in Central Florida will continue to have in-network access to their medical services,” said David Lewis, CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s northern Florida health plan. “The new agreement and our renewed relationship emphasize our joint commitment to delivering broad access to quality health care to our customers in Central Florida.”

“We are pleased to extend our relationship with UnitedHealthcare and to have the opportunity to continue providing high quality health care to all of our patients enrolled in their health plans,” said Lars Houmann, president and CEO of Florida Hospital Division. “Throughout the process we remained focused trying to ensure that our patients have access to comprehensive and convenient health care services.”

About Florida Hospital System

Florida Hospital has been serving the residents of Central Florida for more than 100 years and is one of the largest not-for-profit hospitals in the country, caring for more than a million patient visits per year. As a destination hospital, Florida Hospital offers a wide range of health care services to the local community and beyond.

About UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare (www.unitedhealthcare.com) provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefits 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 approximately 25 million individual consumers, contracting directly with more than 600,000 physicians and care professionals and 5,000 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.

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