California Worker Layoffs Loom Amid Tricare Contract Loss
As many as eight Blue Shield of California employees and a total of 106 California-based TriWest Healthcare Alliance employees could be laid off this month, after Arizona-based TriWest lost a $20.5 million military health services contract in March 2012 to UnitedHealthcare. Blue Shield provides care to TriWest beneficiaries in the state.
- "Blue Shield Employees May Be Cut due to TriWest Contract Loss" (Robertson, Sacramento Business Journal, 2/7).