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North Kansas City Schools approve employee health plan renewal with smaller-than-expected premium increase
Summary
The school board approved a benefits renewal that trims an insurer's proposed 16.3% rate increase to a 5.5% net premium increase through negotiations and modest plan design changes, including higher prescription co-pays and continued rate re-tiering.
The North Kansas City Board of Education on March 4 approved the district's benefits renewal, accepting a health plan package that district consultants said reduces an initial medical-rate request from 16.3% to a 5.5% increase.
Margo Nelson of benefits broker Holmes Murphy told the board the insurer initially sought a 16.3% increase but the district negotiated that down to 6% with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City and then further reduced the premium by making minor plan-design changes to reach a 5.5% increase. "We are calling for a needed increase of 16.3%. We were able to negotiate that down to 6% with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. And we were able to make some minor plan design changes, that…
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