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We Are All In The Benefits

Ballgame Together!!

2015 Benefit Open Enrollment Presentation

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Items we are reviewing today…

• Immanuel Benefits

• Preventive Care

• Urgent Care VS Emergency Room visits

• Health Savings Accounts—new limits & vender change in March 2015

• Wellness reward

• What’s new for Immanuel?

• How to enroll for benefits?

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1st Inning Your Health Plan has 2 Parts:

Your

Coventry tax-free

$$

Part 1: Health Insurance Plan Part 2: HSA Bank Account

New Vendor

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Medical Plan

• No plan design change

• $1500 Single deductible/$3000 Family deductible

AND this is also your Out-of-Pocket maximum!

• Once the deductible is met the plan pays

100% for the rest of the plan year

• Coventry recently merged with Aetna-we now have an expanded network of Aetna providers

• New premium rates

• Adding same-sex spouse

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Same-Sex Spouses

• Same-sex spouses are now eligible to be added to our current medical plan.

• If a same-sex couple was married in a any state that allows for same-sex marriages such as Iowa, dependent spouses are eligible to be on our plan regardless of where the couple resides.

• Just like other life events, documentation is required---proof of marriage (marriage certificate).

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What applies to your deductible??

Deductible

RX’s

In Patient Hospital

Outpatient Surgery

Physical Therapy

Chiropractor

Doctor visit

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Preventive Health CarePaid for by our Immanuel Health Plan @

100%So….what does this

include????

• Annual Physicals

• Mammograms

• Well-woman care (pap smear)

• Diabetes screening

• Certain Osteoporosis screenings

• Well baby & child care

• Prostate cancer screening

• Colon cancer screening

• Adult & childhood immunizations

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Emergency Room or Urgent Care

What should I do???There has been an up swing of emergency room visits mainly evenings and weekends. Just a reminder that some Urgent Care locations are open extended hours in the evenings and open at least part of the weekend hours.

• Average cost of an Emergency Room Visit is $1,350.

• Average cost of an Urgent Care Visit is $120.

• Average cost of a call to Nurse Advisor Line Free.

We all need to be good health care consumers and keep the costs down for ourselves and our health plan!

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Immanuel VS CompetitorDeductible: $1,500 individual

$3,000 family

Out-of-Pocket Maximum:

$0 individual

$0 family

*Once deductible is met plan pays 100%. Out-of-pocket has been met too. This is key!!

HSA Employer Contribution:

$350 individual max per yr.

$1077 family max per yr.

Wellness Reward:

$377 per eligible employee

Deductible: $2,000 individual

$4,000 family

Out-of-Pocket Maximum:

$5,000 individual

$10,000 family

In addition to deductible before plan pays 100%.

HSA Employer Contribution:

$0 individual

$0 family

Wellness Reward:

Non-specified incentive

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2015 Medical Premiums (FTE.8 or 32 hrs per week)

–EE Only $52.75 biweekly• $47.48 subsidized rate**

–EE + Spouse $178 biweekly• $160.20 subsidized rate**

–EE + Child(ren)$165 biweekly• $148.50 subsidized rate**

–EE + Family $202 biweekly• $181.80 subsidized rate**

**Employees with a wage of $14 per hr or less

receive a 10% discount on medical premiums.

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2015 Medical Premiums (FTE.7 or 28 hrs per week)

–EE Only $69.25 biweekly• $62.33 subsidized rate**

–EE + Spouse $232 biweekly• $208.80 subsidized rate**

–EE + Child(ren)$215 biweekly• $193.50 subsidized rate**

–EE + Family $263 biweekly• $236.70 subsidized rate**

**Employees with a wage of $14 per hr or less receive a 10% discount on medical premiums.

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Immanuel’s Premium History

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

EE Only $48.00 $38.00 $38.00 $41.75 $45.75 $49.75 $52.75

<21%>Savings

0%Neutral

10%Increase

10%Increase

9%Increase

6%Increase

Table shows Employee Only per pay period premiums for the last 7 years as seen in the previous slide with the graph. The percentage of increase over the 7 years has averaged 3.65% compared to the market averages ranging between 25% and 35%.

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Immanuel Total Medical Plan Cost Annually

Immanuel Costs H.S.A Match Wellness Reward

Employee Premium

H.S.A EE Contribution

Immanuel Pays 80.2%

Employee Pays 19.8%

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EXAMPLE EMPLOYEE SCENARIO Employee earns: $12.00 an hour and is a 1.0 FTE (fulltime)

= $24,960 Annually

$24,960 X 2.5% merit increase is a $624 increase = $25,584

Employee Only health insurance premium was $44.78*/pay period

= $1,164.28 for the year. *Note: EE receiving 10% premium subsidy.

2015 Premium increases to $47.48** ppp = $1,234.48

or $70 for the year *Note: Premium increase is just over 6% for 2015 employee only

Net = $554

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2nd InningHSA Account

Your Health Savings Account is pre-tax dollars you set aside to help you pay for your out-of-pocket medical expenses such as your deductible, RX, other OOP qualifying expenses.

What are the advantages?• Tax Savings—using pre-tax $$$

• Flexible—--it is your account

• Rolls over from yr. to yr.

• Portable---it goes with you

• Makes you a better health care consumer

because you are conscious of YOUR money

that you are spending for health care costs

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H.S.A. IRS Maximum Contribution Limits

2014Employee Only $3,300

Employee Plus/Family $6,550

Catch-up (age 55+) $1,000

**IRS added $50 to singles and $100 to families.

2015Employee Only $3,350

Employee Plus/Family $6,650

Catch-up (age 55+) $1,000

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New HSA vendor on the horizon

In the 1st quarter of 2015 we will be moving to a new HSA vendor for a number of reasons including:

• easier enrollment process

• investment opportunities(mutual funds/stock)

• lower fees associated with account

• larger network of banking locations

We will conduct educational meetings after

the first of year to explain in detail

what will be happening and how it

affects you.

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3rd Inning Wellness Reward 2016

Need to earn 150 points during 2014-2015

as well as complete the:

Biometrics Screening Health Risk Assessment Tobacco Affidavit

**Employees who start after July 1st and special groups are grandfathered

for the wellness points.

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Wellness Reward

• There is some added flexibility in earning wellness points by doing a charity/community sponsored run/walk/cycle event of your choice. Receive 30 points by completing an Access Wellness form and providing the event number or letter of participation.

• Or you may receive 20 points by doing some community sponsored volunteer work and completing the Access Wellness Volunteer Verification form signed by a Community agency staff member.

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4th InningChange to Dental Plan

• Annual maximum ($1,200) is ALL for dental expenses.

• Same Plan Design & Same Carrier---Ameritas

• There is incentive coinsurance which increases from

80% (1st year), 90% (2nd year) & 100% (3rd year).

• Adult and Child Ortho 50% up to $3,000

lifetime maximum ($1,500).

• There is a dental reward carryover from year to year with dental rewards up to $250.

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Dental Rewards

• You earn dental rewards by submitting at least one claim for dental expenses incurred during the benefit plan year, while staying under total claims $500 in the same year. The one claim could be your preventive check-up.

• The annual carryover amount of $250 is added to the following year’s maximum of $1200 the first year.

• Additional bonus of $100 is earned if you see a PPO provider.

• The accumulated maximum carryover amount is $1000.

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5th InningNEW Vision Plan

• Separate plan and premium - no longer part of dental• Now eligible to receive a vision exam every 12 months• Up to $180 on frames or contacts (most lens options

are covered in full in network)• Claims processed by the dental provider to Ameritas.

No reimbursement form to complete.• $10 exam deductible and $10 Eye glass deductible

applied to lenses or frames• Wide network - uses the VSP network of providers• Ameritasgroup.com

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2015 New Vision Plan Premiums (FTE.7 or 28 hrs per week)

–EE Only $2.32 biweekly

–EE + Spouse $7.19 biweekly

–EE + Child(ren)$6.38 biweekly

–EE + Family $11.26 biweekly

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6th InningNew Vendor for Life & Disability Insurance

• Moving the Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance from Mutual of Omaha to Hartford Insurance effective January 1, 2015.

• Same plan design

• No major changes for employees

• Note: If you didn’t enroll when initially benefit eligible, you will need to complete a health statement (EOI form) to obtain or change coverage.

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7th Inning401k Plan & Match

• Safe Harbor Match - 3% of annual salary each year without EE contributions.

• Immanuel match of 50 cents on the $ for the first 6% of EE contributions.

• Once in the plan—Always in the plan. So if an EE leaves and is rehired—always eligible now.

• Can change contributions at any time or discontinue if needed.

If you are able, be sure to take advantage of those match $$ and your future retirement!!

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8th InningHow to enroll for Benefits

• We are introducing a new online enrollment process this year. All benefit eligible employees will need to confirm their benefits if they want to make changes or have their current benefit coverages continue effective 1/1/2015.

• If you are uncomfortable using the computer or have questions,

we still have the option of the Call Center.

Benefit Call Center @ 877-282-0808

Monday – Friday 7:00 am – 4:00 pm CST

Deadline for Benefit Enrollment is November 21st

No Action = No Insurance

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Immanuel Benefits WebsiteTo enroll you will log into www.immanuelbenefits.com and click on enroll now button

Employee Number: use your employee ID# (same as Relias number)

PIN: first initial of first and last name & last 4 digits of SSN Example—js1234

After reviewing the benefit screens, there will be a summary page with all your benefits listed. Scroll down to the bottom and electronically sign with your “PIN” number.

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9th InningReminders

• Wellness Reward Points for 2014-2015 Wellness Cycle are now 150 points.

• If you do the Flexible Spending accounts for Dependent Day Care or Health or Limited, you must reapply for calendar year 2015.

• All employees have a $1,000 Identity Fraud Expense Reimbursement policy with a $0 deductible paid by Immanuel.

• Employee Assistance Program – Up to 5 visits per person/per issue. Plus Financial/Legal Referral

• Wellness Reimbursement on the cancer policy--$50 on the Low policy and $100 on the High policy. Outpatient physician reimbursement on Accident policy--$25 on the Low policy and $50 on the High policy.

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Reminders cont.

• Immanuel provides tuition reimbursement for FT employees up to a maximum of $3,000 per fiscal yr. and regular PT employees up to a maximum of $1,500 per fiscal yr.

• Immanuel provides a Helping Hands Assistance Fund for those employees in financial need.

• EVERY Benefit Eligible person must enroll or they will not have insurance on 1/1/2015! Also, remember to enter your pin at the bottom of the enrollment screen to confirm your enrollment.

• Questions – Contact your HR Manager or

You can reach us at [email protected]

• Some informational handouts are on the table.

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Don’t forget to take a few minutes to fill out the

Benefit Survey.

We appreciate your feedback.

Thank you.

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You’re on Immanuel’s winning team.

Thank you for coming to the Benefits Ballgame!!