HEALTH CARE
<i> Times Staff and Wire Reports</i>
CHAMPUS Contract Protested: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Inc. has filed a protest with the General Accounting Office regarding the award of the CHAMPUS Region 6 managed-care support contract to Foundation Health Federal Services Inc., a unit of Cordova, Calif.-based Foundation Health Corp. Blue Cross and Blue Shield alleges that the Office of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services failed to evaluate both the cost and technical proposals of Foundation Health consistent with federal requirements. The five-year contract is worth about $1.8 billion and covers 590,000 beneficiaries in four states.
