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Finance committee reviews insurance renewals, hears pitch for DNA-based drug-matching program
Summary
Stephenson County benefits adviser presented property/casualty and health insurance renewals and recommended implementing a voluntary pharmacogenomics service (RxMapper) to reduce high-cost drug claims; the committee discussed but could not act.
A county benefits adviser reviewed Stephenson County’s property-casualty and workers'-compensation renewals and presented a proposed health-plan renewal that would raise fully insured medical premiums roughly 15.8 percent; the finance committee heard the presentation on Oct. 10 but did not vote on premium or coverage changes at that meeting.
The presenter advised keeping liability coverage for the county nursing center while ownership and operations work through a management company sale; he said excluding the nursing center from excess liability now could expose the county to lawsuits while the county still owns assets. The presenter…
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