The renewed contract keeps 8,000 patients in network with UnitedHealthcare.
In an email sent Monday to faculty and staff, Kenneth Polonsky, MD, dean and executive vice president for medical affairs, thanked the managed care team for their work in negotiating the five-year contract. He said University of Chicago Medicine is currently notifying patients covered by UnitedHealthcare of the new contract.
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