{"id":237876,"date":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237876\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:34:10","slug":"umc-health-system-clarifies-in-network-access-for-united-healthcare-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/237876\/","title":{"rendered":"UMC Health System clarifies in-network access for United Healthcare patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; UMC Health System is clarifying in-network access for patients covered by United Healthcare following the expiration of a contract between Texas Tech Health Sciences Center providers and the insurance company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The contract expired last week, affecting tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While HSC providers may deliver care in UMC facilities, their services are billed separately and are no longer considered in-network for United Healthcare plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Patients can still go to UMC for medical care, but at a higher out-of-pocket cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UMC is advising patients to check before services to know who their doctor is affiliated with. Patients with questions about their coverage, benefits or potential out-of-pocket costs should call their insurance provider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; UMC Health System is clarifying in-network access for patients covered by United Healthcare following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[584,2244,1822,91461,66,168,170,169,84584,10703,20373,91460,20179,91463,91462],"class_list":["post-237876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-in-network-access","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech-health-sciences-center","tag-ttuhsc","tag-umc","tag-umc-health-system","tag-united","tag-united-healthcare","tag-united-healthcare-patients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}