{"id":176873,"date":"2026-04-26T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176873\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:13:10","slug":"change-takes-effect-50000-lose-in-network-access-to-lvhn-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176873\/","title":{"rendered":"Change takes effect: 50,000 lose in\u2011network access to LVHN | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Lehigh Valley Health Network patients who have United Healthcare insurance are longer in-network.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley Health Network&#8217;s contract with UnitedHealthcare has ended.<\/p>\n<p>That means Medicare Advantage patients who are covered by United will need to go elsewhere for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Around 50,000 patients are expected to be affected by the change.<\/p>\n<p>LVHN and United had been negotiating for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>United Healthcare says members who are in active treatment, like pregnancy or cancer care, will still have in\u2011network coverage for 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Lehigh Valley Health Network patients who have United Healthcare insurance are longer in-network. Lehigh Valley Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,27620,79082,79081,4588,2351,36872,47839],"class_list":["post-176873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-healthcare-access","tag-in-network-coverage","tag-insurance-contract","tag-lehigh-valley-health-network","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-patients","tag-united-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}