Regence BlueShield boosts premiums 17 percent
Regence BlueShield will raise premiums for 135,000 individual health-plan members in Washington by an average 17 percent on Aug. 1, Seattle Times health reporter Kyung Song writes in today’s paper.
“It is the third consecutive year that the state’s largest provider of individual coverage has boosted rates by double digits. And [...]
The Regence Foundation will give a $135,000 grant to support a program that allows rural residents to train for nursing careers without having to leave their communities.
The program is run by the Western Washington Area Health Education Center, a non-profit agency that works to promote equity of and access to health care for under-served rural [...]
Insurance companies must protect their financial reserves to guarantee they will be able to cover their members’ health costs, writes Regence BlueShield President Jonathan Hensley in an op-ed piece in the Sept. 30 issue of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Hensley was writing in reply to an earlier op-ed piece that questioned why Regence was raising rates on [...]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer guest columnists Martha Scoville and Nate Rozeboom tear in Jonathan Hensley, the new president of the Washington health insurance company Regence BlueShield.
Scoville, a Regence policy holder, and Rozeboom, a registered nurse at Harborview Medical Center, want to know why the insurer, which they say has a surplus close to $1 billion, continues to [...]
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