Greetings! I hope you all had a Happy Halloween. I'm writing this quick update today as we are aware of how much chaos has been caused by Providence leaving the insurance marketplace at the end of this year. In particular, about 150 of you have been on the Providence Medicare Advantage plans and looking for a substitute. The DEVOTED HEALTH (https://www.devoted.com/) plans are new to the area, and many of you have felt they appear to be the best replacement if you want to continue on a Medicare Advantage Plan. Until this past week we were not contracted, and I believe we are still not listed on their website. However, as of 9/29/26 we have signed their contract and should be active, so that you should be able to sign onto this plan with any of the three of us as listed provider. Please be aware that the website will list us as "not accepting new clients", but you should be able to sign on as a current patient of the clinic.

Also worth mentioning, is that our office manager Tinh An Nguyen has recently mailed out Docusign contracts for you to renew your contract with our clinic. Please be looking for this in your email or alert us if you have not seen it.

Finally, the Flu and Covid seasons are upon us- if you are older, have any chronic medical conditions that might make it harder to recover from a respiratory illness or are simply in the habit of protecting yourself (as I believe you should be) it's time to get those vaccines- flu shots are available at the pharmacy and in our office, Covid through your local pharmacy.

Thanks!

Jim Biemer and the team at The Biemer Clinic

ps the photo above is from my recent visit to Roche Harbor on San Juan Island