TACOMA — CHI Franciscan Health and UnitedHealthcare have renewed their network relationship, ensuring people enrolled in UnitedHealthcare individual, employer-sponsored, Medicare and Medicaid plans have continued, uninterrupted access to CHI Franciscan hospitals and ancillary facilities as well as Franciscan Medical Group physicians. This agreement also brings Harrison Medical Center and Harrison HealthPartners, a part of the CHI Franciscan Health system, back into the UnitedHealthcare care provider network.
The renewed relationship, effective April 1, includes performance-based incentives designed to reward CHI Franciscan Health and its physicians for the quality of care delivered and patient satisfaction, while better managing medical costs.
“We are extremely pleased that we are continuing our relationship with UnitedHealthcare,” said Ketul J. Patel, CEO of CHI Franciscan Health. “This agreement affords our patients in King, Pierce and Kitsap counties continued access to all the providers and services CHI Franciscan Health has to offer. We pride ourselves on being a health care system that cares for the entire person in mind, body and spirit. We appreciate the continued loyalty of all our patients, and we want them to understand that the quality of our care is our No. 1 priority, each and every day.”
“We appreciate the important role CHI Franciscan Health plays as a local provider of health care services, and we are grateful for the commitments they have made to performance-based compensation,” said Tandy Kooch-Cleaver, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of Washington. “Our renewed relationship will lay the foundation for continued collaboration and will help shift the health care system in Washington from one based on volume of care to one that rewards quality and value.”
In Washington, UnitedHealthcare serves nearly 1.1 million people enrolled in individual, employer-sponsored, Medicare, Medicaid and TRICARE health plans.
CHI Franciscan Health is a nonprofit health system based in Tacoma, Washington, with a team of more than 12,000 doctors, nurses and staff who provide expert, compassionate medical care at eight acute care hospitals and more than 100 primary and specialty care clinics in Pierce, King and Kitsap counties.
About CHI Franciscan Health
CHI Franciscan Health is a nonprofit health system based in Tacoma with a team of more than 12,000 doctors, nurses and staff who provide expert, compassionate medical care at eight acute care hospitals and more than 100 primary and specialty care clinics in Pierce, King and Kitsap counties.
About UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 850,000 physicians and care professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities nationwide.
