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Sierra (company, games) Sierra - (Or "Sierra On-Line") A computer game developer founded in the early 1980s by Ken and Roberta Willams in the small mountain town of Oakhurst California. Sierra was named after the local mountian range, 15 miles from the famous Yosemite National Park.  Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract  Inc. said the U.S. General Accounting Office has denied the company's protest against contract awards for the Defense Department's Tricare health-benefits program, but the insurer An individual or company who, through a contractual agreement, undertakes to compensate specified losses, liability, or damages incurred by another individual.

An insurer is frequently an insurance company and is also known as an underwriter.
 said it might take its case to the federal courts.

Sierra Health had bid for Tricare's North region, but the Defense Department awarded the $2.2 billion contract with 2.8 million beneficiaries to Health Net Inc. in late August.

In early September September: see month. , Sierra Health filed a protest, citing "serious and material errors" in the Defense Department's evaluation and findings.
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Title Annotation:Highlights from BestWeek; Sierra Health Services Inc.
Comment:General Accounting Office denies protest.(Highlights from BestWeek)(Sierra Health Services Inc.)
Author:Suszynski, Marie
Publication:Best's Review
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2004
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