One of the state’s biggest medical insurance providers and one of its largest health care systems have signed a new agreement, ending the threat of a health care crisis for some 53,000 South Sound families.
Regence Blue Shield and Franciscan Health System of Tacoma have completed a new agreement specifying what Regence will pay for health care from Franciscan hospitals and clinics.
Had the two not reached an agreement by April 30, Franciscan facilities would have become non-preferred providers under Regence health plans. Depending on their employers’ health care plans, Regence-covered patients would have received as little as no …