{"id":97754,"date":"2026-01-27T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97754\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:39:20","slug":"deadline-passed-unitedhealthcare-medicare-advantage-patients-lose-in-network-coverage-at-lvhn-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97754\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline passed: UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage patients lose in-network coverage at LVHN | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Medicare recipients will have to look elsewhere for coverage.<\/p>\n

Lehigh Valley Health Network’s contract with United Healthcare has ended.<\/a><\/p>\n

This means Medicare Advantage patients who are covered by United Healthcare can no longer get in-network care with Lehigh Valley Health Network providers.<\/p>\n

Monday was the deadline for the two sides to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n

They had been negotiating for more than two years over reimbursement issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Medicare recipients will have to look elsewhere for coverage. Lehigh Valley Health Network’s contract with United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,47841,27620,47842,47840,4588,2351,8511,47839],"class_list":["post-97754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-contract-negotiation","tag-healthcare-access","tag-in-network-care","tag-insurance-coverage","tag-lehigh-valley-health-network","tag-medicare-advantage","tag-reimbursement","tag-united-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97754","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=97754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}