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Committee endorses health plan consolidations, modest employer rate rise amid shrinking trust fund

Budget and Finance Committee, Board of Supervisors · February 18, 2009
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The committee recommended adoption of Health Service System rate changes: plan consolidation will move ~8,800 members to a new carrier and modest copay increases for non-Kaiser plans; staff said the employer cost increase will be about 4.5% overall and that contingency margins were established to protect the trust fund.

The Budget & Finance Committee reviewed changes to the Health Service System's benefit package and contribution rates and forwarded the ordinance and resolution with recommendation.

Bart Duncan, executive director of the Health Service System, said the board-approved package consolidates non-Kaiser HMO benefits into a single plan and discontinues one plan. He said the consolidation moves roughly…

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