SEATTLE – The Washington State Medical Association, Regence BlueShield and six doctors have settled a lawsuit that claimed the health insurer used flawed methods and outdated information to exclude more than 500 doctors from a “select” network.
The settlement will give doctors the right to appeal performance-based scores Regence assigns them and also will require Regence to:
Regence also has agreed to contribute an undisclosed sum to the medical association’s education and research foundation.
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