After a nearly yearlong dispute, United HealthCare and Montefiore Health systems have reached a new multi-year agreement.

The agreement restores access to Montefiore's hospitals, facilities and its physicians effective Dec. 1.

This impacts people enrolled in United HealthCare and Oxford employer-sponsored plans.

The dispute, which began in January, has impacted thousands of United HealthCare patients who use Montefiore's 10 hospitals and more than 200 outpatient facilities throughout Westchester, Rockland and Orange counties and the Bronx.