Basic plan and optional rider costs
(Rates in effect as of July 2002. All rates
are subject to change.)
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(PDF format*) |
 Basic plan and optional rider costs (PDF format*) |
Huge increases hit thousands
This summer, sharply rising health
care costs led to unusually high increases in the premium rates
of the HMO plans the city offers.
Tens of thousands of municipal employees and retirees enrolled in
HMO plans were hit by increases in premium co-payments of 20 percent
or more in July.
Ordinarily, the city only lets municipal employees and retirees
switch plans during the annual health-care open enrollment period
in the fall. But because of the huge increases, the city made an
exception this year for participants who claimed the hikes represented
an economic hardship.
The rate increases did not affect city workers in GHI, HIP and DC
37 Med Team/Choice-except for those with riders-because those plans
don't have premium co-payments.
The hikes also did not affect Medicare-eligible retirees in the
GHI-CBP/EBCBS Senior Care Plan, which also has no premium co-pay.
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