Health Care Changes for 2008
Some of you may have received a letter from Humana stating that one or more of your prescriptions will be affected by changes in 2008.  Visit the CFT website (www.cft-aft.org) to view which prescriptions will be moving tiers and if your scripts are now falling under quantity limits or will now require pre-authorization by you doctor before they can be refilled in 2008.

Other changes that will affect you on January 1, 2008 are Co-Choice (POS) members will have to meet a deductible in 2008.  The deductible for single policy holders is $100 and the deductible for families is $200 for the employees with family coverage.

The Out of Pocket maximums for the POS Co-Choice plan will also increase to $1200 for single plan holders and $2200 for family plan holders.

The mail order prescription co-pays, for both the POS Co-Choice and HMO New Health plan will increase to 2.5 co-pays for 3 months from 2 co-pays for 3 months.

The final benefit change is that certain Over The Counter (OTC) drugs will be permissible submissions to the Benefit Bank for reimbursement.  Once the new deposits have been made to the Benefit Bank (after all the data is collected from the HHA’s and names of people eligible to receive deposits are submitted to the Treasurer’s Office from Humana), the Treasurer’s Office will release information about which of the OTC drugs will be allowable for submission to the Benefit Bank.