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1 <br /> Orange County <br /> Board of Commissioners <br /> Action Agenda Item Abstract <br /> Meeting Date: September 2, 1997 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. <br /> Subject: Employee Health Insurance Renewal for 1998 <br /> Department: Personnel Public Hearing: Yes No X <br /> Budget Amendment <br /> Needed: Yes No X <br /> Attachment(s): Information Contact: <br /> Monthly Rates for Health Insurance Elaine Holmes, Personnel Director <br /> Renewal Effective January 1, 1998 Extension 2550, <br /> Telephone Number: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Purpose: To consider renewal of employee health insurance plans for 1998. <br /> Background: Orange County offers three employee health plans: <br /> Plan Plan Type <br /> Blue Cross Preferred Provider Plan Preferred Provider Org. <br /> Blue Cross Personal Care Plan Health Maintenance Org. <br /> Healthsource Health Maintenance Org. <br /> The two Blue Cross plans are provided through the North Carolina <br /> Association of County Commissioners Health Insurance Trust. <br /> The County's health insurance providers (the NCACC Trust and <br /> Healthsource) have provided health insurance renewal rates for the <br /> three health plans effective January 1, 1998. <br /> The NCACC Trust rates provide for a three tenths (.3) percent rate <br /> increase. Healthsource provides for a two to three percent increase <br /> depending on coverage type (individual or dependent). <br /> The Attachment shows the renewal health insurance rates effective <br />