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Pueblo to consider city-run employee health clinic; council scheduled Nov. 10 vote on contract
Summary
City staff and Crossover Health presented a plan to open an on-site primary care clinic for city employees, to be paid from the city’s self-insurance reserves. Council was told the clinic would cost about $900,000 annually and could reduce health-plan spending over five years; a contract resolution is scheduled for Nov. 10.
Marissa Vacheco, the city’s director of human resources, told the Pueblo City Council on Oct. 6 that the city has selected Crossover Health to operate an on-site employee clinic and that council would see a contract resolution on Nov. 10.
Vacheco said the city funds its health insurance from a self-insurance fund “to a tune of about 14 and a half million dollars per year” and that the fund held roughly $6.5 million in reserves that may be used for benefit-plan functions. She said the proposed clinic would be paid from those reserves and estimated direct operating costs at “about $900,000 a year.”
The nut of the administration’s case was cost control: Vacheco said clinic services would not generate claims on the city’s health plan and therefore should lower plan utilization and unit costs. She said the city’s employee survey showed…
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