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Regence Executive Salaries in Washington Take a Tumble

Premera Blue Cross executives were the highest paid; their CEO took home $2.2 million in 2009
April 15, 2010 – Compared to their Washington counterparts, Regence officials must be shaking in their boots. Read More >>

Midwives Lose When PEBB Switched to Providence

Under the old contract, Regence BlueCross BlueShield paid for in-home deliveries by licensed midwives
April 7, 2010 -- There’s a glaring omission in the benefits offered to state employees now that Providence Health Plan holds the reins -- licensed direct entry midwifes can no longer be paid for in-home deliveries. Read More >>

Top 10 Highest Paid Oregon Health Insurance Executives

Regence CEO takes a 40 percent pay cut while Clear One Health Plan executives saw their salaries soar last year
March 17, 2010 -- Many of Oregon’s health insurance executives took home lower paychecks last year, and Mark Ganz, CEO of Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, took the biggest hit. Read More >>

Standard Joined Regence Against Ballot Measures

Together both insurance companies spent $105,000 to defeat Ballot Measures 66 and 67 in a special election
March 4, 2010 – Regence BlueCross BlueShield wasn’t the only insurer that made a financial contribution to try and defeat Ballot Measures 66 and 67. Read More >>

A Call for Regence to Become Accountable

Regence’s actions are more consistent with a for-profit hedge fund
February 18, 2010 -- I just returned from 16 days in Singapore to start teaching my public health, health management and international health students again for Linfield’s spring semester. Read More >>

Regence Wants Slow Approach on Reform

Since 2006, Massachusetts has seen a dramatic reduction in premiums for individuals and small businesses after creating an insurance exchange.
February 11, 2010 – It was quite a coincidence. Almost the same time Regence BlueCross BlueShield received approval to raise individual rates by 16 percent, one of its top executives urged policymakers to proceed slowly with setting up an insurance exchange so the market wouldn’t be disrupted.   Read More >>

Portland-area UFCW Members Dropped from Kaiser

January 28, 2010 -- Nearly 2,000 Portland-area grocery, meat, and retail workers and their families — 5,700 people in all — were dropped from the Kaiser Permanente health system Jan. 1. Read More >>

Regence Gave $70,000 to Defeat Ballot Measures 66 and 67

In doing so, Regence became the only health insurer in Oregon that contributed to the 'no' campaign
January 28, 2010 -- The victory celebrated by proponents of Ballot Measures 66 and 67, which will raise taxes on corporations and wealthy Oregonians, no doubt left one health insurer booing from the sidelines. Read More >>

Regence Tells Brokers to Oppose Premium Tax in Health Reform Bill

The $6.7 billion tax to cover the uninsured will supposedly be passed onto consumers
December 18, 2009 -- In an email to brokers and agents, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon tells them to urge their elected representatives to vote against the healthcare reform bill in Congress because it's estimated to raise premiums on those who have insurance. Read More >>

An Insurance Bureaucrat Speaks Out

Dr. Don Thieman’s been inside the health insurance industry and he’s not remaining silent
December 3, 2009 -- A former medical director at Regence Bluecross Blueshield of Oregon says people have nothing to fear. By and large those in government have our interests at heart much more than people in the insurance industry. Read More >>
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