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Washington State Nonprofit Health Insurer Seeks to Transfer Coverage.

By Kyung Song, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 2--Premera Blue Cross wants to stop providing Medicaid and Basic Health Plan coverage in Washington state and transfer its contracts to a California-based company that specializes in government-sponsored health plans for low-income people.

The deal with Molina Healthcare would switch Premera's 43,000 Medicaid members and 23,000 Basic Health members to Molina's managed-care providers later this year. About 80 percent of doctors and hospitals who accept Premera's Medicaid and Basic

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