File #: 14361    Version: Name: health insurance for Ja Co employees
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 11/4/2002 In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
On agenda: 11/4/2002 Final action: 11/12/2002
Title: A RESOLUTION approving health insurance plans and rates as a County-provided employee benefit.
Sponsors: Terry Young
Indexes: HEALTH INSURANCE

                     Floor Amendment II

                     November 12, 2002

 

                     IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI

 

 

Title

A RESOLUTION approving health insurance plans and rates as a County-provided employee benefit.

 

Intro

RESOLUTION # 14361,   November 4, 2002

 

INTRODUCED BY Terry Young, County Legislator

 

 

Body

WHEREAS, the County has solicited written proposals for group health insurance for County employees for the 2003 contract year; and,

 

WHEREAS, Federal Regulations pertaining to Chapter 1 - Public Health Service - Subpart H - Employees Health Benefit Plan, require that the County offer a Federally Qualified Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Plan of each type described respectively in Regulations, 110.805 (a) (1) (Staff) and 110.805 (a) (2) (Independent Practice Association (IPA)); and,

 

WHEREAS, respondents were as follows: Humana, Coventry, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Health Midwest/EPOCH, and Cigna; and,

 

WHEREAS, the Administration recommends:

 

INDIV                                          FAMILY

Humana

HMO (Staff/IPA 75/3)                                                                                                         $211.01                     $586.59

 

Humana

HMO (Staff/IPA 75/1)                                                                                                         $243.29                     $676.34

 

Humana

PPO (IPA, Network 18/15)                                                                                                         $348.50                     $965.79

 

therefore,

 

BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the health plan proposal of Humana, consisting of both Staff/IPA and PPO models, be, and hereby are approved; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Executive be, and hereby is, authorized to execute any necessary documents to implement the group health insurance plans selected herein, provided that no plan provides any coverage for unmarried domestic partners of County employees; and,

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any savings to be realized by a 2% reduction in premium offered by Humana shall be allocated, to the maximum extent possible, to a reduction in employee contributions to premiums and, in particular, to a reduction in employee contributions to family premiums.

 

 

Enacted and Approved

Effective Date:  This Resolution shall be effective immediately upon its passage by a majority of the Legislature.

 

 

APPROVED AS TO FORM:

 

 

______________________________                           _____________________________

                     County Counselor

 

Certificate of Passage

 

 

I hereby certify that the attached resolution, Resolution # 14361, 2002 was duly passed on ________November 12_________________, 2002 by the Jackson County Legislature.  The votes thereon were as follows:

 

 

Yeas _______8__________                                          Nays ______0_______

 

Abstaining ______0_______                     Absent _____1_______

 

 

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Date                                                                                                          Mary Jo Spino, Clerk of Legislature