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Board of County Commissioners <br />Meeting Minutes - Final June 18, 2019 <br />C. General Services <br />1. Human Services <br />2. Sandridge Golf Club <br />3. Recreation <br />D. Human Resources <br />12.D.1. 19-0510 <br />Recommended Action: <br />The Chairman called for a recess at 11:57 a.m., and reconvened the meeting at <br />1:00 p.m, with all members present. <br />Medical and Pharmacy Benefit - Recommendations for Plan Year <br />2019/20 - Continued from June 4, 2019 Meeting <br />Staff recommends and respectfully requests the Board of County <br />Commissioners approve, effective with the plan year beginning October 1, <br />2019, the County offer a Premier Silver Plan and Premier Gold Plan, at the <br />premium amounts stated to eligible employees and retirees, and implement the <br />pharmacy Clinical Advantage Program - Standard Program to manage <br />pharmacy costs. <br />Attachments: Staff Report <br />Human Resources Director Suzanne Boyll utilized a PowerPoint Presentation to <br />detail the rising healthcare costs, to explain how the County and Constitutional <br />Officers' employee and retiree healthcare and pharmacy benefits plan was <br />funded, and to provide the proposed changes to the benefits and premiums, <br />effective October 1, 2019. She highlighted the newly introduced Premier <br />Silver Plan and the changes to the current Premier Gold Plan, noting that both <br />proposed options would include the same Florida Blue Options network and the <br />same pharmacy network as in the past. In addition, Director Boyll confirmed <br />that employee informational meetings were held the previous week, as directed <br />by the Board on June 4, 2019. <br />Director Boyll then spoke on consumerism, which puts the responsibility of <br />searching for the lowest cost for treatment on the member. She provided some <br />statistics with regard to claim history and reviewed a chart that compared the <br />proposed monthly premiums for Indian River County employees to the monthly <br />premiums being paid by other area City, County, and School Board employees. <br />Director Boyll went on to provide information on the Pharmacy Clinical <br />Advantage Program, making note that RxBenefits is the County's prescription <br />benefit administrator. <br />Commissioner O'Bryan received clarification from Shrina Amin of RxBenefits <br />regarding Formulary Optimization, a money -saving tool that excludes low <br />clinical value drugs from being covered, and inquired about the list of <br />alternative drugs that Ms. Amin stated would work as well, if not better, than <br />the excluded drugs. <br />Indian River County Florida Page 15 <br />