NAIFA
WASHINGTON and WAHU working for their membership!
NAIFA
WA members please read the following article from the President of WAHU about a
meeting we had last Monday with regards to the changes of the Premera Blue
Cross/LifeWise Health Plans. Many of you
wanted to know what we knew about this issue.
It was a very good meeting whereby NAIFA WA and WAHU discussed the
issues that our respective members had about their decision to pay no
commissions for their LifeWise business.
Please read.
~Sharon L. Sparling, NAIFA WA Government Relations Chair
WAHU
Has Meeting with LifeWise Health Plan of Washington
Last week, WAHU Lobbyist Mel Sorensen,
Immediate Past President Chris Free, and I, along with Sharon Sparling and
Richard Ek of NAIFA (WA), met with the President & CEO Jim Havens and
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Executive Jim Messina, of
LifeWise Health Plan of Washington, as well as the Vice-President
for Congressional & Legislative Affairs for Premera Blue Cross Len Sorrin, to review and discuss the recent
announcement by LifeWise that they will be re-structuring their plans and
discontinue paying commissions to Producers starting in 2016 (2017 in Clark
County).