The Hubbard County Board, on the advice of a advantages committee, modified their group medical health insurance from PrimeWest Well being to Medica.
County human assets director Gina Teems reported Tuesday that the Nationwide Insurance coverage Companies has requested proposals. Blue Cross, Northwest Service Cooperative and Medica all provided offers “that present vital financial savings over present medical health insurance premiums,” Teems stated.
In July, the county commissioners terminated their contract with PrimeWest Well being, efficient January 1, 2023. PrimeWest is a county-based self-insured program.
Teems reported that Blue Cross provided a premium for 2023 of $2,596,923, with a cap for the second yr to not exceed 15%.
Northwest Service Cooperative provided $2,566,639, with no restrict for the second yr, whereas Medica proposed a premium of $2,456,571, with a restrict for the second yr to not exceed 11.5%.
County Commissioner Dan Stacey stated, “I hope we’re not making a mistake.”
County Commissioner Char Christenson, who sits on the PrimeWest Board of Well being, stated Medica’s numbers are “actually good” and was instructed “there is not any method PrimeWest Well being” may have matched them.
The board unanimously authorized Medica’s proposal, efficient Jan. 1, 2023, and features a second-year renewal.
In different enterprise, the county division of social providers signed a neighborhood help providers contract with Parenting Options. Joe Johnson, previously of The FATHER Challenge, fashioned the brand new firm.
County Social Companies Director Brian Ophus stated Johnson has comparable contracts with Becker, Beltrami and Cass counties.
In accordance with the contract, Parenting Options shall be reimbursed for the next charges for providers supplied to eligible recipients:
- Wage of $27,900 plus fringe advantages, primarily based on a 10-hour day per week multiplied by 52 weeks.
- $742 per mileage (80 miles per week for 16 weeks at zero.58 per mile).
Ophus stated the funds will come instantly from the Minnesota Household Funding Program Consolidated Fund, which is 100% federal and state grant cash.
“You will be working with the identical people who find themselves working by MFIP, making an attempt to get them jobs as effectively, and doing a variety of the various things that you just had been doing, however slightly below contract,” Ophus stated. “He is doing a extremely good job.”
Christenson stated: “This can be a excellent use of presidency funds as a result of it has a confirmed observe document of creating a distinction in individuals’s lives. I’m delighted that you’ve got discovered an answer.”
The movement was authorized unanimously.
