Aetna and SUNY Downstate Medical Center Reach New Contract Agreement:
Aug 9, 2011
Three-year Agreement with SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn Improves
Access to Care for Aetna Members and SUNY Downstate Patients
Aetna and SUNY Downstate Medical Center announced a new agreement for SUNY Downstate’s resumed participation in the Aetna network, and the continuing participation of University Hospital of Brooklyn’s recently acquired Long Island College Hospital campus.
Under the agreement, SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital of Brooklyn will participate for all Aetna commercial and Medicare products, including student health plans. The new agreement also will enable the more than 700 SUNY Downstate hospital-based and affiliated physicians currently participating with Aetna to continue their participation uninterrupted. Groups included in the contract are: University Hospital of Brooklyn; University Physicians of Brooklyn, P.C.; and Brooklyn Anesthesia Research.
“We are extremely pleased to have reached a three-year agreement with SUNY Downstate,” said David Kobus, Aetna senior vice president – New York Network. “Having this key facility in our network expands access to quality care at convenient locations for our members who live and work in Brooklyn.”
“We are delighted to have a new agreement that will allow Aetna members to continue to have full access to the services provided by SUNY Downstate and its excellent physicians,” said Grace Wong, vice president for managed care and clinical business at SUNY Downstate.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center is the only academic medical center in Brooklyn and one of the borough’s largest employers. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate comprises University Hospital of Brooklyn; Colleges of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Related Professions; Schools of Graduate Studies and Public Health; and an Advanced Biotechnology Park and Biotechnology Incubator. Long Island College Hospital became part of Downstate’s University Hospital of Brooklyn on May 29, 2011.
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About SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, founded in 1860, was the first medical school in the United States to bring teaching out of the lecture hall and to the patient’s bedside. A center of innovation and excellence in research and clinical service delivery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center comprises a College of Medicine, College of Nursing, School of Health Professions, a School of Graduate Studies, School of Public Health, University Hospital of Brooklyn, and a multifaceted biotechnology initiative including the Downstate Biotechnology Incubator and BioBAT for early-stage and more mature companies, respectively.
SUNY Downstate ranks twelfth nationally in the number of alumni who are on the faculty of American medical schools. More physicians practicing in New York City have graduated from SUNY Downstate than from any other medical school.
About Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving
approximately 36.5 million people with information and resources to help them make
better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional,
voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including
medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and
medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans.
Our customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and
hourly workers, health plans, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor
groups and expatriates.
Contacts
Aetna
Susan Millerick, 860-273-0536
MillerickS@aetna.com
or
SUNY Downstate
Ron Najman, 718-270-2696
RNajman@downstate.edu