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Group Insurance Commission Annual Report Archive FY1999 through FY2008
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The mission of the Group Insurance Commission is to provide high value health insurance and other benefits to state employees and retirees (including their survivors and dependents) - as well as providing these benefits to redevelopment, housing, and certain other authorities.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same - in other words, the problem that will not go away continued to rear its unattractive head in FY08 - unsustainable health care cost increases.
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Rising health care costs and gaps in health care quality continue to pose formidable challenges:
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In an effort to improve administrative efficiencies and meaningfully expand the application of the CPI Initiative, the GIC went out to bid for all of its health plans during Fiscal Year 2008.
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On July 25, 2007, Governor Deval Patrick signed into law Chapter 67 of the Acts of 2007 which allows municipalities the option of joining the Group Insurance Commission's health coverage.
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The GIC continued to collaborate with Administration and Finance, the Health Connector Authority, and the Comptroller to implement the final requirements for the ground-breaking Health Care Reform Act.
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The GIC will continue to improve its Clinical Performance Improvement Initiative, engaging members, health plans and providers to improve quality and rein in unsustainable cost increases.
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