Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) announced that it signed a multi-year agreement with MultiPlan Inc., effective Jan. 1, 2010. The agreement includes participation in the PHCS (formerly Private Healthcare Systems) Network, the MultiPlan Network and, in select markets, PHCS Savility, which is MultiPlan's newest primary PPO network.
The agreement includes all hospitals owned and operated by Tenet subsidiaries as well as Tenet's 59 freestanding diagnostic imaging centers and ambulatory surgery centers. Tenet Physicians Inc., which contracts for the more than 400 physicians employed by various Tenet subsidiaries, also is part of the new agreement. The physicians represented by Tenet Physicians Inc. include traditional primary care specialties, as well as medical and surgical specialties.
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