Insurance: Kreidler orders Regence to fix health insurance problems

We just issued a press release about The Regence Group and its subsidiaries here, which have been having ongoing problems with billing and claims, including a computer system error that resulted in more than 6,000 incorrect transactions.

The same error apparently caused Regence to accidentally withdraw money from the bank accounts of people are not even Regence members. (Some of the withdrawals totaled thousands of dollars.) In the process, some Regence members' names and identification numbers were accidentally disclosed to strangers.

Last week, we and insurance regulators from three other states -- Oregon, Idaho and Utah -- met with Regence Group CEO Mark Ganz and other company officials in Salem, Ore. We provided the company with a list of the problems we've noted or that consumers have complained to us about.

For more details, please see the news release link above.