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Edinburg council approves solicitation to study personal drug importation after health-plan briefing
Summary
After a consultant reported the city’s new self‑funded health plan was modestly ahead financially, the council voted to solicit proposals for a personal importation prescription program and to consider direct provider contracts intended to contain costs and reduce employee out‑of‑pocket copays.
Valley Risk Consulting told the Edinburg City Council that the city’s move to a self‑funded health plan left it about $299,538.46 in the black for the October–December reporting period, but that a December spike in claims included four high‑cost cases totaling $386,000.
Consultant Javier Lial said the firm identified 12 prescription drugs that could be procured through a personal importation program from “tier‑1” countries (for example, Canada or the U.K.), and that applying such a…
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