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Do You Need a Less Expensive Health Insurance Plan?
Is Your Employer Group Satisfied with Your Current Health Insurance?
Are You Confident Employer Groups Will Be Protected From Health Insurance Company Price Increases?
If Not Then Contact NASRO & Discover New Options - 800-638-8113 or Fax in Your Census to 800-562-8588
NASRO is the private non-profit solution to achieving affordable health care. We are a cost effective third party administrator in Washington State of affordable group health insurance, dental, vision, life and disability plans. We service both individuals, retirees and employer groups of all sizes. Big changes in health insurance are coming, that we have been fighting for going on 17 years. We expect to be part of that change going forward with new plans that will be implemented starting three years after the federal legislation is passed.
If you or your organization need a more affordable health insurance plan we suggest you not delay acting through NASRO. It will be three years before new plans will be available and when the new plans arrive NASRO will continue to offer our services to supplement those offered through the government.
NASRO is also a non-profit association, founded by health care consultant and activist Robert Gaw,
that is your advocate and a humanitarian organization for the common good. NASRO is also a trusted independent organization that provides accurate information on the strengths and weaknesses of the health insurance carriers and their plans. NASRO is a seventeen year old provider of affordable health insurance, with lower premiums for Washington state residents. We are an organization that supports Washington State and Oregon citizen efforts to
make affordable health care available to all state residents and to move to providing universal health coverage, with a public option this year.
Washington State Individual Health Insurance
Washington State Health Insurance for Non Profits, Businesses and Public Sector Groups of All Sizes
Washington State Self Insured, Self Administered Plans with Major Savings From the Country's Leading PPO Network

Longtime Consumer Advoate, Robert Gaw, NASRO President & Founder, is Keeping the Pressure on for Affordale Washington Health Insurance with Support for Universal Coverage
NASRO is able to asssit any state resident with their Washington health insurance problems in part because we are a non profit, but also because we work with Washington health insurance staff that is very dedicated and experienced.
Our local health insurance and health care professionals are not just working for a living, but our also offering their leadership and have the skill sets to really assist any state resident or employer group with direct straight
answers to questions about benefits choices, cost and which
health plan provider network is best for you or your employees. There are no complicated telephone matrixes, waits or impersonal service from out of state telemarketing centers when you call NASRO . Every person and every company is important and our answers to your questions are accurate and consistent. The people who answer our phones know the most about the plans, the regulations and the enrollment process of anyone associated with our organization. That is just the opposite from for profit companies where individuals and small group service are staffed with entry level personnel.
Please consider
the large number of plan choices from all of Washington's and Oregon's
health insurance carriers that NASRO has available.
Regence
Group Health Cooperative HMO & POS
LifeWise
Kaiser Permanente of the Northwest
Premera Blue Cross
Assuris
PacifiCare/United HealthCare
Health Net
Aetna
The Impact of Health Insurance Reform
Every day that goes by that Washington State health insurance is allowed to continue individual medical underwriting and deny people affordable Washington health insurance coverage is a major waste of resources. It ruins more families and makes Washington weaker in the global marketplace, as this practice contributes to the annual rise in health insurance prices. Hopefully government regulation will soon do away with this practice.
That still leaves employer groups with the major problem of controling costs and preventing the health insurance & health care companies from shifting costs from individuals to employer groups. From our 28 years in the industry we know that the health insurance carrier profits are squeezed in one sector, they move like the air in a balloon over to another area. NASRO can stop this practice from happening.
For more information please call 800-638-8113 or email NASRO and request a proposal.
Case Studies
A self employed business owner and spouse from Seattle in their 40's with two children, all in good health, with no chronic medical conditions has just received a major rate increase from their insurance company. NASRO is able to take the time to review the situation and make recommendations on some of the newest plans available from well respected Washington State carriers that can lower the monthly premium increase. NASRO is fighting for health care reform that will outlaw the practice of individual medical underwriting as part of a new federal law. Although we have said this before over the past decades, we now believe this typee of basic reform will become law very soon.
A small non-profit in Spokane is seeing its budget cut due to the ongoing recession and is receiving continued rate increases from its health insurance carrier. We know the private health insurance industry unfairly rates up small employer groups compared to larger employer groups. NASRO offers a total review of the benefit options that provide access to outpatient care, prescription drug coverage and inpatient care with some cost sharing.
Capabilities
Types of Coverage
- Traditional Health Insurance for Washington
- Preferred Provider Organization Plans for Washington
- Health Maintenance Organizations for Washington
- Catastrophic Health Insurance for Washington
- Health Savings Account Plans for Washington
- Dental Insurance Plans
- Vision Insurance Plans
- Long Term Disability Plans
- Short Term Disability Plans
- Life Insurance Plans
- Medicare Supplement Plans
- Medicare Advantage Palns
- Long Term Care Insurance Plans
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Retirement Plans
Affordable Washington Health Insurance
Plans
Individuals, Self
Employed Persons, and Small Business, Cooperatives
and Non-Profits from 1 to 500 Employees
Please call NASRO Washington State Health Insurance Options
at 800-216-2505 to discuss the rates, benefits and providers
of the NASRO endorsed Washington health insurance plans underwritten
by leading Washington health insurance carriers that we have available
to our members.
- Benefits ranging from HMO plans with excellent
coverage to the high deductible PPO plans.
- Choice of providers ranging from physicians and
hospitals participating in excellent quality networks to
unlimited choice of providers.
- Coverage for the whole state, from Seattle to Spokane, from Clark County to the islands.
- Coverage that travels with you when you travel outside
of Washington.
- Ongoing administrative support from NASRO's health
care administrative team.
- view NASRO's
Washington State Group
Health Plan
Carriers
Lifewise
Regence Blue Shield
Regence now has coverage available for people and businesses in Clark County
Premera Blue Cross
Group Health Cooperative
New plans for individuals and families, freelancers, sole proprietors and the self employed
Group Health Balance Plans
Group Health Welcome Plans
Group Health Health Savings Account Plan
KPS
Kaiser Permanente of the Northwest
Kaiser has good coverage options available for people and businesses in Clark County
Asuris Northwest
Health
PacifiCare
Additional NASRO Services Coming Soon
Dental Plans
Smart Smile Plan
Life Insurance and Long Term Disability
Met Life Insurance Company
UNUM
West Coast Life
NASRO Service
What people are saying about NASRO!
I have nothing but praise for the good folks at NASRO ( National Association of Socially Responsible Organizations ).
If you have ever dealt with insurance providers, you know that the usual goal of the person who answers the phone is to say " no " and hang up as quickly as possible. My experience with NASRO could not have been more different.
They actually did the math on whether it would be better for me to stick with COBRA for 18 months before switching to the NASRO plan. The one time I actually had a problem with coverage for a medical condition, they not only straightened it out, but also remembered to ask me if I was feeling better after the procedure.
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
P.S. Full disclosure. NASRO does not compensate me in any way for praising it immoderately. I am just a fan.
NASRO's Members Include
- Community Builders Worker Cooperative
- Jobs with Justice
- Women In Film & Video
- Act Blue
- Alliance to Defend Health Care
- National Pancreas Foundation
Read the Site in Spanish or Chinese
For new Americans whose first language is Spanish or Chinese, the site is also available in those languages by clicking the link at the top left hand conner of the page. NASRO warmly welcomes the participation of everyone. The link to our member site is www.global-equality.org.
Contact
us today
NASRO Group Health Co-operative Is Working For Washington State Health Care Consumers
Federal Health Care Reform Update
Washington
Medical Quality Assurance Commission
Information on physician
profiles for consumers

NASRO Northwest Office
Seattle, Washington
800-216-2505
NASRO of California Office
609 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 200
Palos Verdes Peninsular, California 90274
424-237-9647/800-638-8113
NASRO Eastern Office
Two Canal Park, Fifth Floor
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141
617-308-1525
NASRO Washington D.C. Office
3204 18th Street, N.W.
Washington D.C. 20010
800-638-8113
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Small & Medium Employer Groups Contact NASRO and Request a Proposal - 800-638-8113
Tuesday, March 18, 2010
FCC: Health Data Exchanges To Need More Broadband Support
At the Health Information and Management Systems Society annual conference on Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced multiple recommendations involving new funding and regulations for broadband Internet connections that support health IT exchange, Government Health IT reports.
The recommendations stem from an FCC survey that found the U.S. lacks sufficient broadband connections to meet criteria for "meaningful use" of electronic health records that will determine whether health care providers are eligible for incentive payments under the 2009 federal economic stimulus package.
The survey found that as many as 3,600 small practices do not have even basic broadband services, while thousands of other locations face price disparities of as much as $45,000 each year for the same services available in better connected areas.
Recommendations
To address such access problems, FCC proposes:
- Changing its Rural Health Care Program to use the initiative's annual $400 million budget to establish a health care broadband access fund to assist health care providers and other institutions in purchasing broadband services;
- Establishing a health care broadband infrastructure fund to aid providers in expanding broadband networks where the existing infrastructure is lacking; and
- Changing the way providers are reimbursed for handling "e-care" distributed over broadband links, which providers have said is one of the biggest barriers to health IT adoption.
FCC wants to link funding as closely as possible to meaningful use to ensure that the money goes to locations following the guidance of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
The recommendations are part of FCC's upcoming National Broadband Plan that it is expected to deliver to Congress by March 17 (Robinson, Government Health IT, 3/2).
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