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UW Medicine seeks relief from contract bundling in Uniform Medical Plan negotiations
Summary
House Bill 17-66 would prevent carriers from conditioning participation in the Uniform Medical Plan on a hospital system's participation in the carrier's commercial products, a change UW Medicine says would allow fairer commercial negotiations.
House Bill 17-66, reviewed Wednesday by the House Health Care & Wellness Committee, would bar a health carrier acting as a third-party administrator for the Uniform Medical Plan (UMP) from requiring a state-owned or operated hospital system to participate in the carrier's commercial products as a condition of participating in the UMP.
UW Medicine representatives asked the committee for support, saying the current structure — where an insurer bundles participation in both the UMP and its commercial plans into one…
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