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Third Amendment to Extend the City’s Florida Blue Administrative Services Contract for One Year (B)
Explanation
The City of Gainesville has an administrative services agreement with Florida Blue for its Group Health Plan. Due to the heavy workload associated with the Workday implementation and the associated configuration changes that would be needed to modify our current health plan structure, it is in the best interest to extend the Florida Blue Administration agreement for one additional year. In addition to allowing more time for our Workday Platform to stabilize, it will allow staff additional time to conduct community builder engagement to get their input on what they would like to see in their health benefit. This was rendered difficult over the past 18 months with the pandemic impacting our ability to engage with community builders and the time commitment made to the Workday implementation. The additional year is being offered at the same rates as 2021 and will have no budgetary impact. The cost per contract is $27.23/month for individual contracts and 64.92/month for all other tiers.
In addition, it will allow staff to look at ways to utilize what the City is spending on health care and find how we can leverage that spending through plan design to align that spending with the City Commission initiate on creating a more equitable community. The City’s health care spending in Plan Year 2021 will approach $25 million and most of those costs are spent in the local health care delivery market place. Finding innovative ways through benefit design or modeling the solicitation to include carve out services that will encourage private investment in areas of our community that are under represented by repurposing funding already being spent is consistent with the City Commission's Equitable Community Goal.
Strategic Connection:
This item is connected to Goal 5: Best in Class Neighbor Service. Maintain, hire, train and retain professional Commun...
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