BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 The UAB Health System and UnitedHealthcare have reached an agreement in principle on a new health insurance contract. This development ensures that UnitedHealthcare members can continue to access care from all UAB and UAB-affiliated medical providers without any disruption to services.<\/p>\n
SEE ALSO: Crisis in the Classroom Town Hall: The Path Forward for Alabama’s Schools<\/a> Both parties have agreed to a one-week period to finalize the terms of the agreement. Once completed, UAB said the new contract will be effective for a multi-year term, providing stability and continued access to high-quality care for patients across the state.<\/p>\n UnitedHealthcare said the agreement will provide continued, uninterrupted network access to UAB. It added that it organizations have extended its current contract through August 8 as the parties work to finalize the terms of a long-term agreement.<\/p>\n The previous health plan contract expired July 31, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 The UAB Health System and UnitedHealthcare have reached an agreement in principle on a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[40819,25847,97,252,9041,253,40817,40818,40820,40816,38888],"class_list":["post-53522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-access-care","tag-contract-terms","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare","tag-insurance-agreement","tag-medical-providers","tag-multi-year-term","tag-uab-health-system","tag-unitedhealthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522","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=53522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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