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Find a Location

Premera Blue Cross has 6 locations, listed below.

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    • Premera Blue Cross

      PO Box 91102 Seattle, WA 98111

    • Premera Blue Cross

      PO Box 91102 Seattle, WA 98111-9202

    • Premera Blue Cross

      7001 220th St SW Bldg 1 Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-2160

    • Premera Blue Cross

      PO Box 327 Seattle, WA 98111-0327

    • Premera Blue Cross

      2020 SW 4th Ave STE 1000 Portland, OR 97201-4965

    Business ProfileforPremera Blue Cross

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    HeadquartersMulti Location Business
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    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.32/5stars

    Average of 19 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    28 complaints closed in last 3 years

    9 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Premera Blue Cross has 6 locations, listed below.

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      • Premera Blue Cross

        PO Box 91102 Seattle, WA 98111

      • Premera Blue Cross

        PO Box 91102 Seattle, WA 98111-9202

      • Premera Blue Cross

        7001 220th St SW Bldg 1 Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043-2160

      • Premera Blue Cross

        PO Box 327 Seattle, WA 98111-0327

      • Premera Blue Cross

        2020 SW 4th Ave STE 1000 Portland, OR 97201-4965

      Headquarters
      PO Box 91102, Seattle, WA 98111
      BBB File Opened:
      1/1/1955
      Years in Business:
      79
      Business Started:
      5/9/1945
      Business Started Locally:
      5/9/1945
      Licensing Information:
      This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
      Alternate Business Name
      • Life Wise Assurance Company
      • LifeWise Health Plan of Washington
      • LifeWise Health Plan of Oregon
      • LifeWise Student Insurance
      • Premera
      • Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alaska
      • Lifewise
      • Lifewise Health Insurance
      • Lifewise Assurance Company
      • N C A S Northwest Inc
      • Lifewise Administrators
      • Northstar Administrators
      Business Management
      • Mrs. Stephanie Olsen
      • Mr. Rick Grover, President
      • Mrs. Stephanie Olsen, Team Leader
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mrs. Stephanie Olsen, Team Leader

      Customer Contact

      • Mrs. Stephanie Olsen, Team Leader
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      Customer Complaints

      28 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      04/08/2024

      Complaint Type:
      Service or Repair Issues
      Status:
      Unanswered
      I'm double insured by 2 health insurances, they're Regence and Anthem. I've been always covered under my Dad's Anthem, and for Regence- that's the confusing part: from 2021-2024, I sometimes covered by my mom's plan from Regence and she's the policy holder, and some other time I was covered by Regence when I was the policy holder. (Same insurance same plan, but different policy holders in different period of times during these years)As you may know the following conditions determine who's the primary insurance:1. If you are the policyholder, then that insurance will be your primary insurance. 2. If both of your insurance are under each of your parents, then whoever's birthday comes first will be the primary insurance. That being said, when I'm covered by both my parent's insurance, whoever's birthday first should be my primary insurance, and should pay the medical bills first, whatever amount left will be paid by the secondary insurance. The tricky part is, me and my mom work at the same school district and we chose the same medical insurance plan, unfortunately my employment status changed few times in last couple years, resulted into some period of the time in the year, I was the policy holder, and some period of the time in the year, I was covered by my mom's insurance. Now, I have been receiving medical bills range from 2021 - 2024, those are supposed to pay by Anthem first, because they were the primary insurance at those period of time.But they refused to pay the bills says they weren't the primary insurance at that time.We called Anthem multiple times to explain the situation, and even connected the calls with Regence agents few times, to clarify the time frames of when I was the policy holder and when I was not. Anthem's agent always said "I understand the situation and I will help you with this", but each time we called, few weeks later same situation happened again. We even received bills from collections because Anthem are not paying the bills.

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Melody B

      5 stars

      04/11/2024

      I want to say thank you to *******, the customer representative in the ****************** website who helped me with my claim appeal. I went back and forth we other representatives for weeks and ******* was the one who was able to resolve my issue. I appreciate the call back and update. I appreciate you taking the extra step.

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