A Collaboration Between Mount Sinai and CityMD Aims to Enhance Quality and Access to Care
Arthur Klein, President of the Mount Sinai Health Network
The Mount Sinai Health System and CityMD have launched a joint collaboration to enhance and expand urgent care services throughout New York City, a partnership that will combine Mount Sinai’s vast network of providers and CityMD’s urgent and clinical care management expertise to create a unique model of timely access to health care.
Significantly, the relationship allows CityMD patients access to Mount Sinai providers, when needed, for prompt follow-up care with a primary care physician or a specialist for further treatment or management of chronic conditions. Provider access includes all Health System hospitals, faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and other Mount Sinai-associated physicians.
Says Arthur Klein, President of the Mount Sinai Health Network: “This collaboration will establish a more comprehensive model that meets the full spectrum of health care needs of patients throughout the city. We look forward to achieving significant milestones with CityMD.”
The partnership also provides an added benefit to Health System staff enrolled in a Mount Sinai health plan. As a member of the Health System network, CityMD is now a “top tier” provider in the employee health plan. Enrolled employees will have zero or lower copays, depending on their plan, as well as no deductibles, when receiving care from a CityMD practice. Founded in 2010, CityMD now has more than 50 practice locations in the tri-state area.
Under the collaboration, both parties will also share electronic medical records and establish quality metrics to further improve patient outcomes and reduce health care costs.
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