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Adams County officials question practice of prepaying MedAir membership premiums
Summary
County staff told the board that State Audit advised against counties paying vendors upfront for employee membership plans; MedAir told the board it will work with the county to offer alternative payment schedules.
Adams County supervisors on Monday questioned a practice in which the county pays an emergency membership vendor up front and then recoups the cost from employees through payroll deductions.
County staff told the board that State Audit advised the practice appears to amount to advancing money to employees for work they have not yet performed and therefore is not legally permissible. "State audit has said that you cannot pay people in advance for work they hadn't done," a county staff member said during the discussion.
The matter concerned a county cafeteria-plan option provided by a membership vendor identified in the meeting as part of the Air Medicare network / MedAir EVAC program. Under…
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