UnitedHealthcare has announced an initiative to speed up payments and ease administrative burdens for rural hospitals struggling with chronic financial and staffing pressures.
To that end, the insurer said it will expand its Rural Payment Acceleration Pilot program – launched in January across Oklahoma, Idaho, Minnesota, and Missouri – nationally.
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