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Staff: backlog of medical claims pushed employee benefits fund about $118,000 over budget
Summary
County staff told the budget committee a backlog of out-of-network and specialty medical claims created a sudden spending spike that left employee benefits about $118,000 over the current projection; the county is monitoring weekly and seeking details from its TPA.
John, a county staff member, told the Oklahoma County budget committee on April 15 that a backlog of medical and prescription claims has driven the county’s employee benefits spending above its earlier projection.
John said the county had budgeted a combined $852,000 increase for medical and prescription claims for the fiscal year, and “as of March 30, we had only gone into $90,000 of that $852,000 increase.” He told the committee that large weekly check registers received since then reflect a backlog the county’s third‑party administrator was clearing, and that the combined medical/prescription line has moved “about a hundred and 18,000 over what was budgeted.”
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