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Overlake Medical Center has notified their patients that effective January 1st, 2019 that they would no longer be contracting with Regence Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO insurance plans. Overlake [...]

By April 2019, Medicare Beneficiaries will have received a new Medicare Card that utilizes a new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier instead of their Social Security Numbers.

Washington insurance carriers have filed 2018 plans with the Insurance Commissioner’s office. Eleven carriers intend to make a total of 71 plans available next year. Six of those insurers will [...]

We are hearing a lot of noise relative to the impact on Medicare if the GOP were to attempt to repeal or amend Obamacare. Some this contains hype, scare tactics and half-truths, often with [...]

Medicare Supplement Plan F will no longer be available to new enrollees in 2020. Those who are already enrolled in a Plan F may continue on this plan. Plan F has been one of the most, if not the [...]

With Kaiser Permanente's acquisition of Group Health Cooperative complete, many are curious what this means for them. In short, Group Health insurance members will see NO changes to their plans [...]

Today Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler gave the last major approval needed for Kaiser Permanente to acquire Group Health Cooperative. Both organizations can now take the [...]

On Friday November 11th 2016, VibrantUSA was notified by The Everett Clinic that the contract which had been in dispute since November 3rd has been successfully renegotiated with Regence [...]

A well known national insurance carrier has announced that they will be offering two NEW Medicare Advantage PPO plans in a few counties in the State of Washington. Residents of King, Pierce, and [...]

The Washington Health Benefit Exchange has created a Special Enrollment Period from February 17 through April 17 allowing individuals that weren’t able to enroll into a healthcare plan by [...]