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An Updated Guide To Cobra (2011), Bonnie Jones Aug 2011

An Updated Guide To Cobra (2011), Bonnie Jones

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This guide is updated to include information about health care reform, also called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as new reporting requirements for employers.


Technical Bulletins: Health Insurance Premiums As Salary For Municipal Elected Officials And Employees, Don Darden May 2010

Technical Bulletins: Health Insurance Premiums As Salary For Municipal Elected Officials And Employees, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In some Tennessee cities, compensation is awarded to mayors and board members in lieu of health insurance coverage.


An Updated Guide To Cobra (2010), Bonnie Jones Feb 2010

An Updated Guide To Cobra (2010), Bonnie Jones

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

An overview of COBRA, which mandates that most group health plans offer a continuation of health insurance when employees and beneficiaries would otherwise lose group health coverage.


What Every City Needs To Know About Health, Dental And Life Insurance (2009), Don Darden Sep 2009

What Every City Needs To Know About Health, Dental And Life Insurance (2009), Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication explains the various kinds of health, dental and life insurance programs that are available to municipal employees and how to procure them.


An Updated Guide To Cobra (2009), Bonnie Curran Jan 2009

An Updated Guide To Cobra (2009), Bonnie Curran

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

An overview of COBRA, which mandates that most group health plans offer a continuation of health insurance when employees and beneficiaries would otherwise lose group health coverage.


Reducing Health Insurance Costs In Tennessee Cities, Don Darden Oct 2008

Reducing Health Insurance Costs In Tennessee Cities, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The best way for cities to affect health insurance cost favorably is to do a better job managing their existing programs and using all of the resources available.


Health Insurance Policy In New York City And Westchester County, Colin Stone Jul 2008

Health Insurance Policy In New York City And Westchester County, Colin Stone

Master in Public Administration Theses

Health insurance policy is an important and timely issue in the United States. According to many reports, the number of individuals who lack any type of health insurance in this country numbers approximately 47 million. This paper will focus on government sponsored health insurance programs in New York City and Westchester County, New York, including a discussion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).


Reducing Health Insurance Costs In Tennessee Cities, Don Darden Sep 2007

Reducing Health Insurance Costs In Tennessee Cities, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The best way for cities to affect health insurance cost favorably is to do a better job managing their existing programs and using all of the resources available.


Reducing Health Insurance Costs In Tennessee Cities 2007, Don Darden Feb 2007

Reducing Health Insurance Costs In Tennessee Cities 2007, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The best way for cities to affect health insurance cost favorably is to do a better job managing their existing programs and using all of the resources available.


Hot Topic: Health Insurance Premiums As Salary For Municipal Elected Officials And Employees (2006), Don Darden Aug 2006

Hot Topic: Health Insurance Premiums As Salary For Municipal Elected Officials And Employees (2006), Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

In some Tennessee cities, compensation is awarded to mayors and board members in lieu of health insurance coverage.


What Every City Needs To Know About Health, Dental And Life Insurance, Don Darden May 2003

What Every City Needs To Know About Health, Dental And Life Insurance, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This publication explains the various kinds of health, dental, and life insurance programs that are available to municipal employees and how to procure them.


Technical Bulletins: Cities Required To Extend Health Insurance Coverage To Former Employees And Dependents, Don Darden Feb 2003

Technical Bulletins: Cities Required To Extend Health Insurance Coverage To Former Employees And Dependents, Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The COBRA law creates an opportunity for people to retain health insurance by requiring employers to extend the coverage that the employee or dependent had immediately before qualifying for continuation coverage.


Hot Topic: Three "Hot Topics" Affecting Tennessee Cities: New Vehicle Seizure Law For Dui Offenders And Driving On Revoked Driver's License; Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Of 1996; Municipal Clerk Certification Grandfather Period Repealed, Rex Barton Mar 1997

Hot Topic: Three "Hot Topics" Affecting Tennessee Cities: New Vehicle Seizure Law For Dui Offenders And Driving On Revoked Driver's License; Insurance Portability And Accountability Act Of 1996; Municipal Clerk Certification Grandfather Period Repealed, Rex Barton

MTAS Publications: Hot Topics

Discusses three hot topics: a new vehicle seizure law for DUI offenders and for people driving on a revoked driver's license, effective January 1, 1997; the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, signed into law by President Clinton in August 1996; and the repeal of the municipal clerk certification grandfather period.


Technical Bulletins: Required Group Health Care Coverage For Former Employees And Dependents, Michael Tallent Jul 1986

Technical Bulletins: Required Group Health Care Coverage For Former Employees And Dependents, Michael Tallent

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), which requires cities with more than 20 employees, that offer health care plans, to extend continuing health care coverage to their employees or their dependents when certain "qualifying events" have occurred.


Technical Bulletins: Changes In Federal Law Will Increase The Costs Of Health Insurance, Harold R. Yungmeyer Dec 1982

Technical Bulletins: Changes In Federal Law Will Increase The Costs Of Health Insurance, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses changes in the Federal Social Security Act and in the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, changes which affected group health insurance premiums for cities with any employees over 65 years of age.


Technical Bulletins: Self-Insurance: A Tennessee City's Experience, Mtas Apr 1979

Technical Bulletins: Self-Insurance: A Tennessee City's Experience, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the city of Kingsport's experience with self-insurance. Important elements in the initial establishment of this self-insured program included: (1) the development of a very stringent employee safety program; (2) the creation of a personnel safety department to administer the program; and (3) the development of a method for funding operation of the program. The key to success in the program was the proper assignment of responsibility.