Regents order audit of dependent employee health insurance

Cost saving appears to be the order of the day with The Georgia Board of Regents ordering an audit of all employee's health insurance. What they are looking for are ineligible dependents who are listed on an employee's health insurance. Citing honest mistakes and a lack of understanding of who is eligible for the dependent health insurance, employeees will get letters this month allowing them to drop the ineligible dependents voluntarily.

Regents order audit of employee’s health insurance | The Red and Black

Audits of other academia and industry have shown between 8 and 10 percent of covered dependents are not eligible for coverage. With 94,000 people covered under the health plan, 46,000 of them dependents, a 10 percent drop could save the university system $9 million.



Update on Tue, March 16, 2010 by Editor

Decisions still to be made on budget cuts including health insurance

A day after Gov. Sonny Perdue revised his budget recommendations on Thursday it has been determined that many decisions still remain to be made with regards to what and who will be impacted - including employee benefits and health insurance. Ben Harbin oversees the writing of the House version of the budget said "The regents' list was bogus," he said. "They were trying to put something out that would scare the whole state."

Georgia lawmakers: We don't know where budget ax may fall | Jacksonville.com

Reverberations from a list of $300 million in possible cuts issued by the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents continue to echo around the state with protests in various cities. The regents listed 4,000 layoffs, closure of satellite campuses and the elimination of the popular youth program 4-H.

Whatever the outcome, there will be changes and those changes will affect employers from across the state including a range of health services providers and services. For those people who are waiting to see if they will lose their employee health insurance benefits it is going to be a worrying couple of weeks.