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On December 4, 2015, it was announced that Group Health would be acquired by Kaiser Permanente. [2] In January 2017 Washington State regulators endorsed the acquisition of Group Health by Kaiser Permanente. The acquisition resulted in a newly formed not-for-profit 501(c)(4) under the name Group Health Community Foundation (GHCF). [11]
Kreidler has focused on health reform most of his career and worked to implement the Affordable Care Act in Washington state. He was the first insurance commissioner [10] to reject President Obama's proposal to give insurers another year to sell pre-Affordable Care Act plans and testified before Congress on the law's impact on Washington state.
The Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner was created in 1889–90, and became a separate agency in 1907 with an elected commissioner. [1] The current commissioner is Mike Kreidler , a Democrat first elected in 2000 and reelected five times.
Oct. 30—Health care giant Kaiser Permanente and its Washington workers have reached a tentative contract just days before a scheduled strike statewide. Details of the four-year labor contract ...
In 2017, Kaiser acquired Group Health Cooperative, which serves clients in the state of Washington outside of Southwest Washington. Group Health was started in part from funds from longshoremen in Washington state, who were left out when Kaiser chose not to expand north of the Portland area. [56]
Mar. 6—Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced Wednesday that he sent letters to insurers in the Spokane area urging them to make it easier for victims to file claims ...
The Washington Insurance Commissioner serves a four-year term and makes roughly $138,000 annually. General election ballots will be mailed in mid-October for the Nov. 5 election.
[7] Group Health Cooperative, founded in 1947, was one of the first insurance groups in the United States to provide managed care. [8] The cooperative was acquired in 2017 by Kaiser Permanente, who continue to operate Group Health's major hospital and outpatient center at the former St. Luke's Hospital.