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• Patients of Seattle Health Care Cooperative Win Refunds in Settlement.

  - 2003-02-12

  By Kyung M. Song, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 12--Seattle's Group Health Cooperative has agreed to refund millions of dollars to members who were forced to pay for naturopathic, acupuncture and massage-therapy treatments that legally should have been...

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• Washington State Insurer's For-Profit Request Awaits Public Hearing.

  - 2002-10-25

  By Kyung M. Song, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 25--The timetable for Premera Blue Cross's controversial quest to convert to a for-profit insurer was pushed back indefinitely by the state Insurance Commissioner's Office yesterday. Insurance Commissioner...

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• The Seattle Times Business Digest Column.

  - 2002-09-25

  The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 25--MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash.--HEARINGS PLANNED ON INSURER'S PROPOSAL TO SHIFT TO FOR-PROFIT: Insurer Premera Blue Cross, which announced in May that it intends to become a for-profit company, is moving ahead with the process...

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• Washington Consumers Say Buying Prescription Medication in Canada Benefits All.

  - 2001-05-06

  By Carol M. Ostrom, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 6--Roy and Kathleen McMullin figured they were their insurance company's new best friends. Like a growing number of people fed up with the high cost of prescription drugs,...

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