CalPERS’ health care premiums are going up again for hundreds of thousands of public employees and their families, although 40 percent of CalPERS members will see their rates decline.
The 2015 CalPERS premiums, closely watched in the health care industry because of the pension fund’s size and clout, will be a decidedly mixed bag. Blue Shield of California HMO subscribers will be hit with rate hikes of 9.6 percent to 16.4 percent, depending on the specific plan. But Kaiser HMO members’ rates will fall 4.3 percent.
“Some are cutting, some are increasing. That’s really interesting,” said Joanne Spetz, a health care economist at the University of California, San Francisco. She said the wide variations could reflect different experiences the insurers have had with the CalPERS patient population.
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