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Council signals support for maintaining current health-cost shares; staff will use wellness incentives to offset 2025 premium increases
Summary
Director Aubrey presented comparative benefit data and recommended keeping existing employee cost-sharing percentages while deploying wellness incentives and Cigna'9s $50,000 wellness contribution to mitigate rising 2025 premiums; council expressed general support and asked staff to finalize open-enrollment details.
Director Aubrey presented a comparison of Johns Creek employee cost-sharing to peer cities and described the council'9s prior direction to emphasize wellness incentives as part of open enrollment.
"We are going to be finalizing our health and wellness options, towards open enrollment, and we're excited to be doing so," Aubrey said, summarizing the staff recommendation to maintain the current percentage splits and use wellness incentives to encourage enrollment choices that reduce overall costs.
Council members discussed whether to shift subsidy levels among single, employee-plus-child and family plans to lessen sharp step-downs in coverage; Aubrey explained that modeling reflects historical enrollment and actuary projections and noted that the new provider (Cigna) included a $50,000 wellness and preventative care contribution if council approves that contract. Several council members said they supported the recommended approach and asked staff to return with finalized wellness program details prior to open enrollment.
No formal vote was recorded in the work session; staff will finalize the wellness program details and present final numbers for council action as needed.
