{"id":1081,"date":"2026-06-02T08:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T22:17:31","slug":"multicare-health-and-premera-blue-cross-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/2026\/06\/02\/multicare-health-and-premera-blue-cross-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Multicare Health and Premera Blue Cross Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MultiCare Health System and Premera BlueCross have been negotiating a new contract without success. MultiCare previously said the two parties remain misaligned on financial terms. Premera offered this discussion about <a href=\"https:\/\/coveragethatcounts.premera.com\/news\/what-to-know-about-premera-and-multicare-contract-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>cost and affordability<\/strong><\/a>. Therefore, MultiCare had planned to leave the BCBS Benefit Plan Preferred network on June 1, 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/may\/17\/wade-hunt-reimbursements-need-to-cover-the-costs-o\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mr. Wade Hunt<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/may\/17\/dr-romilla-batra-as-negotiations-continue-premera-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dr. Romilla Batra<\/strong><\/a> expressed concerns of both sides on The Spokesman-Review\u2019s Opinion Page of May 17, 2026. Presently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.multicare.org\/premera-healthcare-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Multicare<\/strong><\/a> says both parties have agreed to extend the contract expiration date to June 30, 2026 to ensure patients continue in-network care. <a href=\"https:\/\/healthsource.premera.com\/your-premera-plan\/multicare-health-systems-terminates-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Premera<\/strong><\/a> also provides this important update. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2026\/jun\/01\/multicare-extends-price-negotiations-with-health-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Spokesman-Review<\/strong><\/a> reported this story on June 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multicare Health System and Premera Blue Cross continue contract negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"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\/1081","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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1105"}],"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=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0032\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}