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PITCHING GEM

Mount Ayr’s Quency Vos struck out 12 batters and hit a two-run double in the seventh to force extra innings against I-35. See the full game report on page 5A.

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New insurance option coming to Iowa in 2015

ELM’S CLUB BIKE NIGHT ■ More than 150 motorcycles weathered sporadic rain showers at the sixth annual Elm’s Club Bike Night Friday. The rain did not allow the band to play, but Donna King said the crowd stayed consistent all night to support the event.

CNA photos by JAKE WADDINGHAM

Above, another couple arrives on Elm Street for the activities Friday night. Left, Sean Hargis loads up another brisket sandwich for a customer. The proceeds from the food sales goes to McKinley Park Restoration. Bottom left, Bobbie Perry tests out one of the rides at Elm’s Club Bike Night Friday. More than 150 motorcycles participated in the event. Below, Paul Stover of Creston takes his custom ride on a quick spin down Elm Street for the crowd’s entertainment during Elm’s Club Bike Night Friday.

MORE ONLINE >> See more photos taken Friday at Elm’s Club Bike Night by visiting www.crestonnews.com.

(MCT) — Starting in the fall of 2015, a new partnership among three of the state’s largest companies will add a new twist to health insurance. Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Hy-Vee and UnityPoint Health announced Blue Rewards on Saturday. The plan brings together Wellmark’s insurance options with UnityPoint’s physicians and Hy-Vee’s retail services as part of the companies’ coordination of customer care. “When you can keep health care local, people do better and it lowers costs,” said Laura Jackson, Wellmark’s executive vice president for health care innovation and business development. Wellmark customers will be able to choose from Bronze, Silver and Gold level ■ Wellmark cusAffordable Care tomers will be able Act-compliant health care plans. to choose from Those who pur- Bronze, Silver chase Blue Re- and Gold level wards products will have access Affordable Care to Wellmark’s Act-compliant entire statewide health care physician and hospital network plans. Those who but will have low- purchase Blue er out-of-pocket Rewards will costs when they select a Unity- have access to Point Health-as- Wellmark’s entire sociated provider statewide physior hospital and fill prescriptions cian and hospital at Hy-Vee phar- network. macies. Jackson said the premiums customers pay on these insurance plans will be lower than some of the other plans and products available. Wellmark, headquartered in Des Moines, is the state’s largest insurer, paying benefits claims to more than 2 million people in Iowa and South Dakota. UnityPoint Health, the country’s 13th largest health system, operates hospitals in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. West Des Moines-based Hy-Vee operates 237 retail stores and recorded $8 billion in sales in 2013. In a phone call with The Gazette on Friday, leaders from the three organizations said this type of collaboration is the first of its kind in Iowa and possibly the country. “We’ve worked together for a few years and spoke with consultants who gave us some exposure to what other markets are trying. No one has really done this with companies that have as large of footprints — it’s unique to the rest of the country,” Jackson said. The goal of this new option is to encourage healthy behaviors by integrating Wellmark’s insurance plans with UnityPoint’s medical home model and Hy-Vee’s retail services, including its pharmacy, wellness and dietitian services. The medical home concept is a more patientfriendly and cost-effective strategy that centers on better care coordination through a team-based Please see INSURANCE, Page 2

Young: D.C. experience an asset JOHNSTON — Republican congressional candidate D a v i d Y o u n g said Friday he’s seen the good, the bad and the ugly of Washing- Young ton, D.C., and believes he has the experience, temperament and ideas to help change the climate of dysfunction within

federal government. Young, who finished fifth among six GOP candidates in the June 3 primary but landed his party’s nomination for the 3rd Congressional District at a special convention last weekend, said he is ready to take on the problems in the nation’s capital both as an outsider making his first bid for public office and as an insider who served as Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s chief of staff. The Van Meter Repub-

lican who will face former state Sen. Staci Appel, DAckworth, in the November general election, said he sees his Beltway experience as a strength. “Knowing how to hit the ground running in Washington, D.C., is an asset and working for Sen. Grassley under his mentorship and tutelage is not a bad thing,” he said during Friday’s taping of Please see YOUNG, Page 2

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Fond farewell:

Retiring Orient-Macksburg softball coach Dan McKinney and wife Sharon are introduced at a reception Friday honoring the coach’s 19 years of service to Bulldog athletics. Besides softball, McKinney coached girls basketball and volleyball at O-M. For more on Friday’s game and the reception, see page 5A. CNA photo by LARRY PETERSON

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