Benefit Choice Sample Clauses

Benefit Choice a. Medical Plans: 1. Each year, the Union has the option to offer any available employer sponsored plan to its members. The Union must offer a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings Account (HSA). 2. The parties will meet after premium rates are released for the following year to select new plans, if necessary. No plan will be offered that triggers a federal excise tax (includes Employer contributions to the HSA). Should the parties be unable to select new plans by three weeks prior to the day Open Enrollment begins, the plans for the following year will be the plans that fall just below any applicable federal excise tax cap. 3. An employee may choose their family’s plan coverage from a HDHP, or from any other available plan selected by the bargaining unit. 4. Medical Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) terminated effective December 31, 2016. b. Dental: The City agrees to maintain dental plan coverage at the current level of coverage. c. Vision: The City agrees to maintain the vision plan coverage at the current rate of coverage. The vision plan provides coverage for glasses and contacts, and the medical plan provides coverage for eye exams, except that the HDHP plan does not have an exam provision.

Benefit Choice i) Medical Plans: AWC offers several medical plans for the bargaining unit to choose from. • Each year, the Union has the option to offer any available employer sponsored plan to its members. The Union must offer a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings Account. In 2018, the following plans will be offered: the Premera Heritage Plus PPO $0 deductible; Premera Heritage Plus PPO $250 deductible; United Health Care Navigate $10 co-pay; United Health Care Navigate $200 deductible; and Premera HDHP with HSA. will submit to the City their choices of two complementary plans for the following year: one from the AWC Regence list and one from the Group Health list. (Group Health Access PPO can be offered in addition to a Group Health HMO Plan.) Additionally, the Union will submit their choice of one complementary High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a Health Savings Account (HSA): one from Regence or one from Group Health. • The parties will meet after premium rates are released for the following year to select new plans, if necessary. No plan will be offered that triggers a federal excise tax (includes Employer contributions to the HSA). The parties will meet after premium rates are released for the following year to select new plans, if necessary. Additionally, if any of the plans currently offered by the Employer are no longer offered by AWC, the parties will meet to select plans for the next year. Should the parties be unable to select new plans by three weeks prior to the day Open Enrollment begins, the plans for the following year will be the plans that fall just below any applicable federal excise tax cap. • An employee may choose their family’s plan coverage from a HDHP, or from any other available the Regence plan or Group Health plan selected by the bargaining unit. • Medical Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) will terminated effective December 31, 2016., except as mutually agreed by the parties in a MOU. • The Regence HealthFirst $10 copay plan and the Group Health $10 copay plan will terminate at 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 2017. ii) Dental: Dental plan coverage will be provided through the WSCCCE, Council 2 dental trust. Effective within a reasonable period after ratification of this Agreement, dental insurance will transition to a City selected dental provider.

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