Children’s Mercy Hospital will once again be a provider for people using the Affordable Care Act Marketplace for insurance coverage, after the hospital announced that UnitedHealthCare has agreed to partner with them.
The hospital’s announcement comes several days after a Leawood mother, whose son is receiving cancer treatments there, took to social media after Children’s Mercy Hospital previously announced it would be out of network for patients with plans through the federal marketplace.
On Oct. 20, Kasey Jackson posted a video to Instagram after learning the hospital would no longer be an in-network option for people covered by the ACA. Her son Elijah, 13, was getting treatments there after a relapse of acute lymphoblastic leukemia that first befell him when he was 8. That post was liked more than 120,000 times and shared more than 15,000…