HamCo: School board to vote soon on lowered insurance premiums
For the upcoming plan year that begins
"This was after several months of negotiation," Johnson said. "This is pretty much unheard of... a reduction in premium."
Johnson said they made an assumption that the district's contribution would remain the same as last year, and thus, the savings would be passed onto the employees. Those savings, he said, would vary from about
Dental plans might also have a new perk in the form of a higher annual maximum.
Vision plans would remain the same as last year and will be good until
Johnson noted the school district will be holding an Employee Health Fair, which is scheduled for
"At that health fair, Florida Blue is going to be conducting, at no cost to the district, health risk assessments and biometrics screenings," said Johnson.
All the information that will be collected by Florida Blue, he said, is confidential and not shared with the district at the employee level. The school board will have access to the compiled data reports in order to see all the risk factors and decide on instituting wellness programs for employees to improve their health.
"In the long run, healthy employees are, first and foremost, more productive," Johnson explained. "Secondly, they create less stress on your health plan, which helps to keep premiums down over the longer term. You're on the cutting edge out there in doing some of this, especially in the world of school districts."
Those employees who complete the health risk assessment and biometric screening will have the opportunity to win a grand prize of fully paid insurance premiums for one year, Johnson said. Second prize winner will get half of their insurance premiums paid for one year. These are both for the employee only portion of coverage.
"I think that will get people's attention," Johnson said. "I think they'll want to complete that. The grand prize is worth almost
According to Superintendent
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