HEALTH INSURANCE TRANSITION

Information meetings begin with large turnouts
Idaho employees turned out en masse this week at the first informational meetings about changes in employee health insurance plans. Representatives of the state’s new plan provider (Blue Cross) and the state Department of Administration welcomed capacity crowds in Boise Monday.
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Online forms will make enrollment easier, more accurate
The Group Insurance Office of the Department of Administration announced this week that Blue Cross will have an online form available to help state employees complete the new enrollment process.
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Fitness program will land participants in 'Olympics'
So you’ve never pictured yourself as an Olympic athlete. Your high jump is a short leap, a long distance run is more like a slow walk to the mailbox and weightlifting describes your effort to get out of bed in the morning. Quit watching others exert energy on television and start exerting your own.
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Reward offered for efficiency-producing ideas
The state of Idaho wants employees in the trenches to provide input about making state government – programs and processes – more efficient, and ultimately save both financial and human resources. Legislators last year created an incentive program that will reward employees for innovative ways of achieving those efficiencies.
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GETTING THERE