{"id":16015,"date":"2020-05-15T11:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16015"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:42:31","slug":"premera-blue-cross-pioneers-low-premium-virtual-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16015","title":{"rendered":"Premera Blue Cross pioneers low-premium virtual care plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Jackie Drees for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Health insurer Premera Blue Cross is launching its first virtual primary care plan, available to Washington state employers.<\/p>\n<p>The new health plan, dubbed Premera Now, offers access to a virtual provider from telemedicine company 98point6 at any time with a $0 copay. The plan is offered at a lower premium than standard PPO plans and is currently available for purchase by Washington state employers, with benefits effective Oct. 1.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/telehealth\/premera-blue-cross-pioneers-low-premium-virtual-care-plan.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10731\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/keyboard.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Jackie Drees for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Health insurer Premera Blue Cross is launching its first virtual primary care plan, available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,20,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-redesign","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16016,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}