Group Health Cooperative today announced a 5-year extension of its contract with Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System to provide inpatient care and other medical services for Group Health enrollees in the South Puget Sound region.
Group Health Cooperative today announced a 5-year extension of its contract with Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System to provide inpatient care and other medical services for Group Health enrollees in the South Puget Sound region.
The contract is an extension of an existing agreement Group Health has had with Franciscan since 1996.
Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System and the Northwest Physicians Network have created the first Medicare-approved Accountable Care Organization in the South Sound.
Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System announced today it plans to expand its presence in Auburn with the fall opening of a new primary and specialty care facility on Auburn’s main arterial.
One of the state’s biggest medical insurance providers and one of its largest health care systems have signed a new agreement, ending the threat of a health care crisis for some 53,000 South Sound families.
Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System and Regence Blue Shield appear to be on the verge of averting a health care crisis for some 53,000 Regence members. The Tacoma-based health care company and the insurer say they’re close to resolving a disagreement over rising costs.
Clad in white marble, Tacoma’s newest medical edifice — the new Franciscan Medical Building at St. Joseph Medical Center — could easily be mistaken for a sleek corporate office.
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