AtlantiCare leaving Pennsylvania’s Geisinger health system

AtlantiCare, a major health-care provider at the Jersey Shore, and Geisinger have decided to part ways, the two nonprofit health systems said Tuesday in a joint statement.

Terms of the split, which could take six to 18 months to complete, were not disclosed, and neither side would comment beyond their statement.

Geisinger and AtlantiCare said they would continue cooperating on joint projects, such as the New Jersey campus of the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, in Atlantic City.

Geisinger, a central Pennsylvania system known for owning both hospitals and a health insurer, acquired AtlantiCare, in 2015. In January, Geisinger filed a federal lawsuit in Scranton seeking a “declaratory judgment that AtlantiCare has no right to terminate its association with Geisinger.”

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