BROCKTON — The company that runs Brockton's Good Samaritan Medical Center and other hard-pressed community hospitals, including Saint Anne's in Fall River and Morton in Taunton, aims to sell its physician practice.

In a Tuesday regulatory filing, Steward Health Care revealed plans to sell Stewardship Health to Optum, an arm of UnitedHealth Group.

If approved, the sale could generate cash for Steward, a private, for-profit company that has been behind on rent and payments to vendors. It isn't clear what impact the change of hands would have on patients. Massachusetts' representatives in Washington were quick to question the sale.

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