Health Benefit Update AMP Conference 2019 Sarah

Transcript:Health Benefit Update AMP Conference 2019 Sarah:
Health Benefit Update AMP Conference 2019 Sarah Latham, Vice Chancellor Business and Administrative Services, UC Santa Cruz Marianne McIvor, Health Care Facilitator, UC Santa Cruz Thank you! Your work makes a difference. Main findings: Health benefits cost is still outpacing inflation and workers’ earnings growth. Prescription drugs – specialty drugs in particular – remain a top cost driver. When asked to identify the strategies that will be the most important for the next five years, midsized and large employers: “Managing high-cost claimants” and “creating a culture of health” ranked at the top of the list “Creating a culture of health” moved up a place in 2018 – in 2017 it was ranked third. Behavioral health strategies were rated as important by 47% of employers National Context Mercer National Survey of Employer Sponsored Health Plans UC Program Overview UC is uniquely situated as both a provider of health care and an employer that offers health care coverage. UC looking at health analytics to help drive the benefit program strategy. UC Using Data to Drive Benefits Strategy Maintain status quo with the HMO plans offered Continue relationship with Anthem to refine and enhance features for members enrolled in the UC PPO plans (UC Care, UC Health Savings Plan and Core medical). Strategy for 2019 plan year Rebranded Health Net Blue & Gold to UC Blue & Gold HMO (reaching a multi-year contract with the medical plan). Continuing to offer Kaiser Permanente HMO. Changed behavioral health provider from carve-out plan to a Health Net company, Managed Health Network (MHN) to better align medical and behavioral health provisions. HMO Plans Campus Fact: At UC Santa Cruz, Kaiser only became recently available as a choice for Santa Cruz county residents in 2017. In 2019, California Department of Managed Health provided approval for Kaiser to offer Medicare-coordinated coverage for Kaiser members. This has created a new, modestly priced health care option to Santa Cruz county residents and UC Santa Cruz families (and has promoted competition with the other health care providers in the area). • Effective January 2019, UC expanded health plan eligibility to domestic partners of any age. (UC had previously offered same-gender domestic partner health and retirement plan benefits going back to 1998 and health and retirement benefits for those aged 62 and older prior to the policy changes for 01/01/2019.) • UC promotes family friendly resources for staff, e.g. taking time off to