File #: 12923    Version: 0 Name: Group health ins. for JaCo employees
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/18/1999 In control: Finance and Audit Committee
On agenda: Final action: 10/25/1999
Title: A RESOLUTION approving health insurance plans and rates as a County-provided employee benefit.
Sponsors: Ronald E. Finley
Indexes: EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, HEALTH INSURANCE
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 #12923, October 18, 1999 INTRODUCED BY Ronald E. Finley, County Legislator Body WHEREAS, the County has solicited written proposals for group health insurance for County employees for the 2000 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: FirstGuard, Kaiser Permanente, Humana Health Care, Healthnet, Epoch, and Principal Health Care; and, WHEREAS, the ad hoc Risk and Insurance Committee and Administration recommend : INDIV FAMILY Kaiser Permanente HMO (Staff/IPA) $138.64 $381.21 FirstGuard HMO (Staff/IPA) $156.19 $434.08 FirstGuard POS (IPA, Network) $216.80 $600.78 therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the health plan proposal of Kaiser Permanente, consisting of a Staff/IPA, and that of FirstGuard, consisting of both Staff/IPA and POS 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...Attorney 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 12923, of October 18, 1999 was duly passed on ___________October 25______________, 1999 by the Jackson County Legislature. The votes thereon were as follows: Yeas ________7_________ Nays ______0_______ Abstaining ______1_______ Absent _____1_______ ______________________ _________________________________ Date Mary Jo Brogoto, Clerk of Legislature