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Board approves 2025-26 health plan design that lowers renewal by 4.6% with trade-offs
Summary
The board approved a health-insurance renewal that administration says yields a 4.6% decrease in premiums if the district accepts a single HMO plan (Gundersen) with a nationwide wraparound, eliminating the prior PPO buy-up; the board voted 7-0 to adopt the recommendation.
The Sparta Area School District Board of Education approved the district's health-insurance plan for the 2025-26 school year after administration recommended a renewal that would lower the district's renewal by 4.6 percent compared with the prior plan designs.
Miss Hauser, who presented the recommendation, said the district had been planning for a 10 percent increase in health costs but, after negotiations, could either preserve current plan designs with a 3.7 percent decrease or accept a single…
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