SSM Health Care has not renewed its contract with Dr. Armond Levy, the neurosurgeon that operated on the wrong side of Regina Turner's brain last April at St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, health system officials confirmed.

Levy's contract is set to expire in mid-October, according to Steve Van Dinter, spokesman for SSM Health Care. He said the two parties were “unable to come to terms that were mutually agreeable.”

"I have chosen not to renew my contract with SSM Health Care-St. Louis. The current contract remains in effect until mid-October. At that time, SSM and I will part ways amicably," Levy said in a statement provided by SSM.

Van Dinter said Levy was not fired and that the decision to part ways had nothing to do with the incident involving Turner that was reported by the Post-Dispatch.