{"id":545769,"date":"2026-01-27T01:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/545769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T01:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T01:52:15","slug":"deadline-passed-unitedhealthcare-medicare-advantage-patients-lose-in-network-coverage-at-lvhn-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/545769\/","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=\"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":3,"featured_media":545770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[169586,210,1141,1142,42248,240112,62943,135306,28533,67204,26286,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-545769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-contract-negotiation","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-healthcare-access","13":"tag-in-network-care","14":"tag-insurance-coverage","15":"tag-lehigh-valley-health-network","16":"tag-medicare-advantage","17":"tag-reimbursement","18":"tag-united-healthcare","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115964565575981868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}