Controller's Report

Contain Rise in Health Benefit Costs by Increasing Appeal of our CDHP Challenge: Increase our consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) enrollment. Action: First, we increased the deductible on our preferred provide organization (PPO), our medical plan with the greatest enrollment, to $1,000. Then, we modified our CDHP offering. In the past, this had a health saving account (HSA), which doesn’t require employer contribution. But for 2009, we added a health reimbursement account (HRA) and then contributed $700 to…