Health Insurance Costs and Contributions Sample Clauses

Health Insurance Costs and Contributions. A. The Employer agrees to provide insurance benefits in accordance with this Section for all employees who are normally scheduled to work thirty (30) or more hours per week. Employees who are normally scheduled to work less than thirty (30) hours but more than twenty (20) hours per week may purchase the available insurance benefits by way of payroll deduction. Employees who are normally scheduled to work twenty (20) or less hours per week shall not be eligible for any of the benefits provided in the Section. Effective January 1, 2017, the Employer will offer access to the same Health Insurance plan options as offered to other County employees (See, Appendix “B”), including dental with orthodontics and the vision 12/12/12 plan. The Employer will follow the so-called “hard-cap” requirements of Section 3 of the Publicly Funded Health Insurance Contribution Act (“Act 152 of 2011”, hereinafter referred to as the “act”, for the immediate future). Accordingly, the Employer will pay no more of the total annual costs of the medical benefit plan than the amounts annually determined by the State Treasurer pursuant to Section III of the Act. The Employees will pay the balance of those costs, if any. For purposes of this provision, total annual costs includes the premium or illustrative rate of the medical benefit plan and all employer payments for reimbursement of co-pays, deductibles and payments into health savings accounts flexible spending accounts or similar accounts used for health care and the Michigan Claims Tax, but does not include the costs of dental and vision and does not include beneficiary-paid copayments or beneficiary payments into health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts or similar accounts used for health care. Employees will pay the remaining medical benefit costs attributable to the coverage they select (i.e. single, double or family) biweekly by payroll deduction. Employees shall contribute 8% of the dental premium and 50% of the vision premium. The amount paid shall be adjusted annually based on the illustrative or premium rates and the total costs of the medical benefit plan as detailed in Appendix B. The election by the County provided in Section 4 and 8 of PA 152 may be made annually. B. The Employee may make pre-tax dollar contributions to their HSA up to the IRS established limit.