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Health Service Board negotiates rate changes, applies a one-time Blue Shield credit to stabilize premiums
Summary
Health officials negotiated plan-year and benefit changes that cut projected increases for Kaiser and Blue Shield; a one-time $5.2 million Blue Shield credit stabilizes employee contributions for the shortened plan year, producing an overall 3.4% increase for the city—s six-month transition period.
The committee approved sending forward two Health Service System items that change the plan year and set contribution levels for a shortened plan year, after negotiations produced lower-than-projected premium increases.
Katherine Dodd of the Health Service System and the system—s actuary laid out the negotiation results. Proposition C allowed the system to move from a fiscal-year to a calendar-year plan. HSS and the actuary said that moving to a shortened plan year (July 1–Dec. 31, 2012) and negotiating benefit and…
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