UnitedHealth’s clinician buying spree pressures large hospital negotiations

Jimmy Mayor is not sure what his next appointment at OU Health in Oklahoma City will cost.

Mayor, 59, relies on disability insurance for his income after working as a commercial loan servicer for 20 years. He is among many UnitedHealthcare policyholders slated to lose in-network access to Oklahoma’s only academic medical center.

“I just wish those two would come to some type of agreement and think of the patients,” said Mayor, who receives…