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Pedometer kits for new employees -provided by the Health and Fitness Program. <br />Smoking Cessation Program -offered through a local program called Options, the cost is <br />covered by the City's Health and Fitness Program. <br />Disease Management: Disease management is an important cost containment feature of the health plans. <br />Both health plans offer disease management programs through ODS Health Plans, Inc. for members with <br />certain targeted diseases, for example, diabetes and heart disease. <br />..~ Retiree/Continues Subsidy c`ty°'E°g~e <br />The City's health insurance costs soo Health Plan -Retiree/C QnBnuee Enrollment" <br />continue to be adversely affected <br />- by the large number of retirees 400 4i ' ao, 38Z <br />- ~ ` and other former employees and ass hI <br />~ ~ f_ their dependents who continue 300 ~ , <br />1 _ their coverage under the City's ~ ~, <br />~a'" ~~~ ~ plans on a self-pay basis. Under <br />state law retirees and their 20D <br />spouses can continue to be enrolled in public <br />employer health plans until they are eligible for 100 i ~ ~, <br />Medicare; their dependent children can continue until II i <br />they reach age 18. Nearly 400 former employees and o -, I~ , ~ , - <br />their dependents are currently enrolled in the health FYO3 FYOa FYOS FYOS FYO7 <br />plans. From 'FY97 - FY06, retirees, continuees and their <br />dependents continuing on the City of Eugene's health 'Includes: retirees, COBRA continuees and their dependents <br />plans received $4.6 million more in benefits than they <br />paid in premiums. For FY07, this group paid $1.7 million in premiums and received $2.4 million in benefits; <br />resultin in a Ci subsid of 700 000. <br />$ , <br />9 tY Y <br />With the City's aging work force and large numbers of retirements continuing over the next 5 years, the retiree <br />burden on the health plans is likely to continue to grow. Beginning in FY08, the Governmental Accounting <br />Standards Board (GASB) will require public entities to project the cost of the inherent subsidy between the <br />group rate charged retirees and the actual premium. The City will be required to reflect the projected cost of <br />this benefit for current employees on its financial statement, which is estimated to be approximately $30 <br />million. <br />ciey orieu9ene <br />Total HeaRh Plan Cost as a Percent of Payroll <br />16.00 <br />12.00 <br />t: <br />a s.oo <br />4.00 <br />o.oo <br />FY03 FY04 FY05 FY06 FY07 <br />Employee Cost Sharing <br />Non-represented, AFSCME, IAFF and IATSE- <br />represented employees all contribute towards <br />the health insurance premium in some <br />manner. In FY07, employee premium <br />contributions totaled $680,540. <br />Health Insurance as a Percent of Payroll <br />The graph on the left represents the total <br />health plan costs as a percentage of regular <br />and overtime wages for regular, limited <br />duration, and temporary employees, reduced <br />by active and former employee contributions <br />and. stop loss reimbursements for claim <br />amounts exceeding the City's $100,000 <br />self-insured retention. <br />19 <br />