{"id":431975,"date":"2026-01-27T03:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431975\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:16:10","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\/431975\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline passed: UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage patients lose in-network coverage at LVHN | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Medicare recipients will have to look elsewhere for coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Valley Health Network&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/business\/deadline-approaching-for-lvhn-unitedhealthcare-impasse\/article_f9fe9e17-e324-41a1-8e9c-d22e9cc90241.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">contract with United Healthcare has ended.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>Monday was the deadline for the two sides to reach an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s contract with United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[141321,97,252,253,3038,204800,33272,108385,9448,36146,148964],"class_list":["post-431975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-contract-negotiation","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","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\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}