The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners renewed their employee health plan with no changes as part of their Jan. 21 consent agenda, opting not to adopt the five-tiered prescription drug plan discussed last month.
The board learned at their Jan. 14 executive session that once the county changes to a tiered prescription drug plan, they may be unable to return to the stop-loss pool they currently belong to. Several commissioners said they did not know enough about how the new drug plan would affect their employees to make that commitment.
There was also some pushback from county employees. The board was considering the change based on a mid-December presentation by Lew Wolters, a C&M Insurance agent, who predicted the self-insurance pool’s costs would increase 37% this year.
