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5 1 2 6. Public Hearings - NONE 3 4 7. Regular Agenda 5 a. Emplovee Health Insurance and Other Benefits for 2013 6 The Board considered the County Manager's recommendations for employee health 7 insurance and other benefits for the 2013 calendar year. 8 9 Nicole Clark, Human Resources Director, and Mark Browder from Mark III made this 10 PowerPoint presentation: 11 12 Employee Health Insurance Options and Other Bereft for 2013 13 Background 14 • Orange County provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package 15 Health, dental, vision, life; flexible benefit compensation; employee assistance 16 program; paid leave; contributions to the Local Government Employees' 17 Retirement System and other supplemental retirement plans 18 • Effective January 1, 2012 United Healthcare became the County's provider of health 19 insurance 20 • Point of Service and HDP 21 • Benefits information provided at previous meetings and work sessions during the month 22 of June 23 FY 2012-13 budget includes funding for a 23% increase 24 Medical flexible spending account contribution is$2,500 as of 1/1/13 25 No significant changes to other benefits 26 27 Employee Feedback 28 Prescriptions: 29 • Brand names for certain acid reflux medications were not covered 30 • Limited supplies for migraine and asthma medication 31 • Members had to change prescriptions to get a lower co-pay 32 • All generic prescriptions were not included in Tier 1 33 • Tier I co-pays increased from $0 to $8 34 Services: 35 • Office visit co-pays did not include diagnostic tests 36 • Preventive versus non-preventive services were unclear 37 • Elimination of the obesity surgery 38 39 Employee Survey 40 400 Employees responded 41 73% POS plan participants