{"id":1054,"date":"2026-05-08T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T00:05:11","slug":"may-2026-guest-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/2026\/05\/08\/may-2026-guest-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2026 guest speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiCare Health System and BlueCross BlueShield have been negotiating a new contract without success. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multicare.org\/premera-healthcare-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MultiCare<\/strong><\/a> says the two parties remain misaligned on financial terms. Therefore, MultiCare will leave the BCBS Benefit Plan Preferred network on June 1, 2026. To help us better understand the consequences of this decision, David Condon with Premiera BCBS will share his insights and answer questions pertaining to this issue. We will meet May 11, 2026 at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/XoSSEsAyfgbBsodB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Darcy\u2019s Restaurant<\/strong><\/a> at 10512 E Sprague Ave, Spokane Valley, WA 99206. No-host lunch begins at 11:30 and Mr. Condon will speak about 12:15. All Spokane Chapter and National Only members are invited to attend. Please join us on zoom if you cannot join in person. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/meetings-events\/meetings\/zoom-information\/\"><strong>Zoom instructions<\/strong><\/a> are posted on our meeting page.<\/p>\n<p>Additional recommended reading of both sides can be found on The Spokesman-Review\u2019s Opinion Page, E2, Sunday, May 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>#chaptermeeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Condon with Premiera BCBS will speak at our meeting on May 11, 2026 at Darcy\u2019s Restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meetings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2025\/04\/2025-04-29-bcbs.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}