Children’s Mercy Hospital to offer UnitedHealthcare ACA plan

Children’s Mercy Hospital has reached an agreement with UnitedHealthcare to join its Affordable Care Act marketplace network next year, giving Kansas City families an in-network option for 2027. The deal follows weeks of concern that hundreds of children could lose access to the region’s only pediatric hospital. Families welcomed the announcement after public appeals, including from a mother whose child is receiving cancer treatment there.