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Government Finance Review
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December 01, 2008 |
Schaiberger, Mike |
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A major concern for finance officers is how to significantly and continuously reduce the organizations medical expenditures and simultaneously increase employees' satisfaction with their health-care benefit. Maricopa Court, Arizona, has done just that. Since the county embarked on its employee health-care transformation in 2001, it has held employee and employer medical and pharmacy cost increases to 6.2 percent and 8.3 percent, respectively, which are below national trends, while increasing employee satisfaction with their health benefit to 94 percent for two consecutive years, despite plan design changes and increased premium costs.
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