Somerset Medical Center, Cigna still negotiating new contract

Somerset Medical Center, Cigna still negotiating new contract Though both abandon are hopeful an acceding can be negotiated, Somerset Medical Centermost has notified Cigna HealthCare of New Jersey that it will abolish its arrangement with the managed-care provider able Jan. 4, 2010.     If an acceding is not reached, barter of Cigna still will be covered at Somerset Medical Centermost beneath their plan's "out-of-network" provisions, said Kenneth Bateman, admiral and arch controlling appointment of the medical center.
Cigna action holders represent about 3-4 percent of the hospital's patients, Bateman said.
"We are still actively in negotiations with Cigna and abide hopeful that we will ability an acceding afore our accepted arrangement expires on Jan. 4," Bateman added. "We accept the appulse absolute this arrangement would accept on Cigna patients and we are committed to ensuring their chain of care."
"We abide to accommodate with Somerset Medical Centermost and are hopeful that we can ability a mutually acceptable arrangement that will accumulate them in the network," said Gwyn Dilday, a accessible relations adumbrative for Cigna.
In 2006, Somerset Medical Centermost appear it was absolute its arrangement with Aetna over a altercation on agreement amounts. The abortion was canceled afterwards the hospital and allowance aggregation auspiciously adjourned a new contract.
Bateman said the agreement ante offered by Cigna do not account the added costs for the medical centermost to accommodate alms affliction for the growing cardinal of uninsured patients. Bateman additionally acclaimed the abatement in government allotment at both the accompaniment and federal levels.
About bisected of the hospital's patients are covered by government affairs such as Medicare, Bateman explained.
"And you don't accommodate with the government," he said, abacus that the government is "ratcheting down" its reimbursements.
More and added hospitals will acquisition themselves in altercation with allowance companies over reimbursements, Bateman predicted.
Emergency medical affliction will not be afflicted by the abortion of the Cigna contract. Those casework should be covered by Cigna in accordance with federal and accompaniment laws, with patients advantageous their accepted emergency administration co-pay.  

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