This story has been updated for clarity. 

After nearly a year of friction, Fairview Health Services, University of Minnesota Physicians (UMP) and the University of Minnesota have settled on a framework that discusses debt forgiveness between M Health Fairview Clinics and Surgery Center and Fairview, as well as physical expansion

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Monday the deal touts a $1 billion commitment on behalf of Fairview to invest in University medical facilities. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported UMP owed Fairview more than $100 million back in March.

Cunningham duly recognized the recent agreement amidst Minneapolis’s heated political climate in the same breath in a systemwide email this morning.

“Last month, the University entered mediation with M Physicians and Fairview, committed to good-faith negotiations and achieving a win-win-win solution that benefits our health and healthcare practitioners, students, and patients now and in the future,” Cunningham said in the statement.

This decision marks the end of a long haul that started last spring, since the Attorney General’s Office’s involvement in mediating negotiations between the parties. Throughout 2025, up-and-down negotiations frustrated and confused Board of Regents members. 

The Board is scheduled to approve or reject the funding agreement at an upcoming special meeting this Friday.