United Healthcare, Baptist East continue negotiations

United Healthcare and Baptist Hospital East continue to negotiate in good faith to achieve a new contract. The participation deadline of Dec. 1 has been extended to Dec. 5 to allow these discussions to come to a conclusion. Both parties are working diligently to resolve the outstanding issues.

We at Baptist Hospital East are aware of how very important this issue is to our physicians and to our patients. We will continue to keep you informed regarding developments.