Number
110175
Version
Substitute 1
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Substitute resolution authorizing the Department of Employee Relations to contract with a vendor for the City Basic Plan/Preferred Provider Organization health benefits for 2012-2014.
Analysis
This resolution authorizes the Department of Employee Relations to contract with UnitedHealthcare to administer the City’s self-insured Basic Plan/Preferred Provider Organization for 2012, 2013 and 2014, and to extend this UnitedHealthcare contract for an additional 2 years with the approval of the Common Council. The City’s contract with the incumbent administrator, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, will end on December 31, 2011. UnitedHealthcare will administer both this long-standing benefit plan and the City’s new, self-insured EPO or Exclusive Provider Organization.
Body
Whereas, The contract between the City and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to administer the City’s self-insured Basic Plan/Preferred Provided Organization will end on December 31, 2011; and
Whereas, The Department of Employee Relations, working with Willis of Wisconsin, has prepared a Request for Proposals (RFP) for bids to administer the City’s Basic Plan/Preferred Provided Organization; and
Whereas, The Benefits Review Team recommends that the City should contract with UnitedHealthcare to administer its Basic Plan/Preferred Provider Organization health plan benefits plan as UnitedHealthcare’s bid was the lowest of the 5 bids received; and
Whereas, The City is interested in sustaining good health benefits for all City employees and retirees at the most affordable costs to the City employees and retirees and the City; therefore, now, be it
Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Department of Employee Relations is authorized, in conjunction with the City Attorney, to execute a contact for a 3-year period, January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2014 with UnitedHealthcare to administer the...
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