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OLYMPIA, WA – Medicare’s annual open enrollment period starts Tuesday, Oct. 15 and runs through Saturday, Dec. 7. The Office of the Insurance Commissioner’s Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) program can help you review your plan options. 

Open enrollment is the time to review your current coverage and decide if there are better options for you based on changes to your current plan, your budget or your health needs. If you think you want to make a switch or if you’ve been notified that your plan is discontinued, start reviewing your options now. 

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A woman from Everett who failed to appear for her arraignment and was added to Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Insurance Fraud Most Wanted list was arrested on September 6, 2024. 

Shawndlyn Williams, who also goes by Shawndlyn Dyson, was charged by the King County Prosecutor’s Office with one count of filing a fraudulent insurance claim. She failed to appear at her arraignment and a bench warrant was issued for her arrest in 2022.  

Williams was charged after an investigation by Kreidler’s Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU…

A woman from Everett who failed to appear for her arraignment and was added to Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Insurance Fraud Most Wanted list was arrested on September 6, 2024. 

Shawndlyn Williams, who also goes by Shawndlyn Dyson, was charged by the King County Prosecutor’s Office with one count of filing a fraudulent insurance claim. She failed to appear at her arraignment and a bench warrant was issued for her arrest in 2022.  

Williams was charged after an investigation by Kreidler’s Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU).…

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler announced on Tuesday that his office has received a $620,000 Expanding Access to Women’s Health grant provided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). 

The two-year grant provides states with funding to enhance and expand access to reproductive and maternal health coverage and services. 

“Understanding and accessing over-the-counter contraceptives is critical to the health, safety and well-being of women in our state,” Kreidler said. “This will help us better inform women of…