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Article: Group Health to Drop Many Medicaid Clients in Washington's Tri-Cities Area.(Originated from Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.)
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- September 24, 1997
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Sep. 24--Group Health Northwest will drop health insurance coverage for many of the Tri-Cities' poor next year, after projecting it would lose money on the state Basic Health Plan and Healthy Options programs.
Group Health now covers about 5,000 Benton and Franklin county people in the programs, many of them young women and children. Healthy Options is Medicaid's managed care program for the poor. The much smaller Basic Health Plan offers low-cost health coverage mostly to the working poor.
Group Health members in those programs will need to pick another insurance company for 1998. Among their options will be Medical Service Corp. of Eastern ...