Coventry School Committee votes to move school health plan to fully insured trust, citing near-term savings

The Coventry School Committee voted 6-0 on Feb. 27 to accept the evaluation team’s recommendation to move the district’s employee health benefits — medical, pharmacy and dental — to a fully insured Trust rather than remain in the WB Community Health self-insured pool.

Superintendent Cowart summarized the evaluation, saying the committee’s recommendation was based on proposals, binders and a scoring rubric completed by an evaluation team that included the assistant superintendent, the finance director, an account senior accountant, the HR manager and a town reviewer. ‘‘The recommendation based on what I just went through in that analysis is, for the public schools to move to the trust for health care, pharmacy and dental,’’ Cowart said.

Why it matters: The Trust’s quoted premiums were lower than the WB Community Health working rates…