Cigna Healthcare and Memorial Health Partners have come to a new contract agreement, despite recently mailing a notice that had patients unsure if the physicians' group would remain in the Cigna network.
John Sorrow, Mid-South regional president for Cigna, said in a Thursday e-mail that the two parties have worked out a "mutually acceptable" agreement and there will be "no interruption in our long-standing relationship."
Last weekend some patients of Memorial Health Partners' doctors received letters from Cigna stating that the insurers' contract with the physicians' group would expire on May 12 if the parties couldn't come to an agreement on reimbursement rates.
Patients would have to pay out-of-pocket for care if they were treated by those doctors on or after that date if an agreement wasn't reached, the mailing said.