Tale of two counties

Providing retiree healthcare can be costly. Many counties have seen their costs and liabilities rise. Let’s take a look at two counties and see how they handled the challenge.

What Bird County and Solver County have in common:

✓ Group MA plans with an EGWP

✓ Annual retiree healthcare spend increases

✓ Large and growing OPEB liabilities

✓ Exploring benefit reductions; raise retiree premium share

✓ Retirees exit group plan for cheaper individual Medicare plans