Mount Sinai Health System and 32BJ Health Fund Partner to Deliver In-Network Access to High-Quality Health Care
Agreement ensures access to all Mount Sinai facilities and providers at lower cost
Mount Sinai Health System and the 32BJ Health Fund announced today that they have agreed to partner directly to provide quality, affordable healthcare to eligible members and their families.
The agreement gives the more than 100,000 building service workers covered by the Fund continued access to the entire Mount Sinai network of physicians, services, and facilities.
With this agreement in place, care continues for these 32BJ SEIU members and their covered dependents.
“Mount Sinai is proud to partner directly with employers and health funds to deliver high-quality health care for employees and families to stay well while providing cost savings,” said Brent Estes, Senior Vice President and Chief Managed Care Officer at Mount Sinai Health System. “We are pleased to have reached this agreement with 32BJ Health Fund and look forward to continuing our work to remove barriers to access and improve the patient and employer experience.”
“When hospitals and insurance companies can’t come to agreement, hardworking people lose,” said Cora Opsahl 32BJ Health Fund Director. “We are pleased that we were able to go directly to Mount Sinai to successfully negotiate for ongoing access for our members to high quality affordable care through the Mount Sinai Hospital System.”
Under the new agreement, 32BJ Health Fund participants will not experience any gap in in-network coverage for services provided by Mount Sinai providers, hospitals, and facilities. Patients may continue to schedule and attend appointments, procedures, and treatments as usual.
About 32BJ Health Fund
The 32BJ Health Fund is an unusually effective collaboration between a labor union and management to provide affordable, comprehensive, and innovative health coverage to working-class people. The 32BJ Health Fund aggregates employer contributions from 5,000 employers, ranging from many small businesses to global real estate firms, and uses these contributions to provide benefits to 200,000 members of the SEIU Local 32BJ union and their families. The union members are cleaners, property maintenance workers, doorpersons, security officers, window cleaners, building engineers, school and food service workers, and airport workers in over 10 states and Washington, D.C.
Learn more: 32bjhealthinsights.org
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. The Health System includes approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, a school of nursing, and schools of medicine and graduate school of biomedical sciences.
As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.
Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and recognized as one of the world’s top Smart Hospital by Newsweek. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.
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