Norem said the commissioners asked First Source Insurance to go back to Signa and request a second quote with changes in coverages. Some of the changes requested, Norem explained, involved an increase in the co-pay for employees who visit the emergency room; currently, employees only pay $100 and the commissioners requested an increase to $250. Also, other changes they looked at included a drop in co-insurance, currently at 80 percent. The commissioners asked them to drop it to 70 percent. The out-of-network coinsurance is currently 60 percent and the commissioners also asked for that to be reduced to 50 percent.
Norem emphasized that the commissioners did not make a decision at the meeting, and only requested for those changes to be made to allow them to compare the quotes apples-to-apples. Norem said she expects the commissioners to make a decision on Oct. 21 with the new information.
