-- All System hospitals and facilities will be participating for members in all Aetna plans --
FAIRFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aetna (NYSE: AET) and Saint Barnabas Health Care System (SBHCS) today announced a new contract agreement that will enable Aetna members who receive care at any of the SBHCS hospitals and facilities to continue to be covered at the in-network level of benefits. The new multi-year contract will be effective on January 1, 2011.
"Both parties negotiated in good faith, with give and take on both sides, to reach a fair and realistic agreement that will maintain uninterrupted access to the Saint Barnabas facilities for our members who are their patients," said John Lawrence, Aetna president - New Jersey.
“The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is pleased that an agreement has been reached with Aetna and that our patients and their families will continue to have the ability to select our high quality health care facilities throughout the State of New Jersey when they are ill or injured or for preventive care,” stated Ronald J. Del Mauro, Chief Executive Officer of the Saint Barnabas Health Care System.
The new agreement applies to all Aetna health plan products including Student Health and Medicare. Hospitals included in the agreement are:
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.;
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J.;
- Clara Maass Medical Center in Belleville, N.J.;
- Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J.;
- Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood, N.J.; and
- Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J.
The agreement also includes covered outpatient services provided by SBHCS facilities including the System’s sophisticated Saint Barnabas Ambulatory Care Center in Livingston, N.J., and hospice and home care services.
Aetna serves approximately one million members in Northern New Jersey.
About Aetna
Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 35.8 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. To learn more about Aetna's innovative online tools, visit www.aetnatools.com. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional 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. For more information, see www.aetna.com.
About Saint Barnabas Health Care System
The Saint Barnabas Health Care System is the largest not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system in New Jersey and one of the largest in the nation. SBHCS includes six acute care hospitals, a behavioral health hospital, two children’s hospitals, outpatient centers, surgery centers, geriatric centers, a state-wide behavioral health network and comprehensive home care and hospice programs. SBHCS provides treatment and services for more than two million patients each year including 198,000 inpatients and same day surgery patients, 452,000 emergency patients, 200,000 pediatric patients and 1.5 million outpatients and annually delivers more than 18,300 babies. SBHCS includes 18,200 employees, (the second largest private employer in the state); 4,600 physicians, (representing one-fifth of the actively practicing physicians in New Jersey); and 446 residents and interns.
CONTACT:
Aetna
Susan G. Millerick, 860-273-0536
[email protected]
or
Saint Barnabas Health Care System
Ellen Greene, 973-322-4018
[email protected]
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