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Texas rural hospital organization to end contracts with UnitedHealthcare over ‘unsustainable’ rates
TORCH CIN, a Texas physician-hospital organization representing 45 rural and community hospitals, will end its contracts with UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company due to 'unsustainable' reimbursement rates. The organization's leader described the rates as an 'existential threat' to rural hospitals.
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