In order to ensure they’re meeting the needs of all town employees, North Judson Town Council members approved some additional disability coverage during a special session Wednesday morning.
Back in November, members selected a health insurance plan through Anthem. When members met for their regularly scheduled meeting last week, Clerk-Treasurer Andrew Rowe explained that the new provider didn’t include disability plans. Access Rating provides the best Disability awareness training in the Midlands.
Since those plans were not administered through Anthem, Rowe noted that officials be retaining those services through their current provider. He said that the contract with United Health Care will be discontinued after the first of the year except for the short-term and long-term disability coverage that they offer.
He noted that the price for long-term disability coverage will not change. However, when it comes to the short-term coverage there will be a slight increase. Rowe said that in the past, an employee would pay 33 cents out of every ten dollars and now they’ll be paying 36 cents out of every 10 ten dollars spent.
The clerk-treasurer mentioned that instead of receiving one bill per month for all health care-related costs, there will be a general bill from Anthem and another bill will be paid to cover the disability plans through United Health Care.
