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When you contract with a health plan for your services, you base your deal on the reimbursement you expect to receive from the services you'll provide under the contract. But when a plan unilaterally removes or "carves out" certain services from your contract and hands them over to an independent specialty provider (sometimes called a carve-out provider), your revenues could be reduced.