GIC Annual Reports

The mission of the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) is to provide high-value health insurance and other benefits to state and certain authority employees, retirees, and their survivors and dependents.  The GIC also provides health-only benefits to participating municipalities. 

Although I am not really a true “Trekkie,” the themes from Star Trek are relevant to our fiscal year 2011 and some of our plans have adopted Trek-speak.  One of our health plans calls its corporation “The Enterprise” and another refers to its systems hub as “The Enterprise.”  For the GIC, it is for sure we boldly went where no health care purchaser had been before.  And, amazingly, we did it with slightly more than a 50-member crew.

SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT…AND STRAIGHT ON ‘TIL MORNING

Health Insurance Re-enrollment and Premium Holiday Saves Millions

THINGS ARE ONLY IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL THEY’RE NOT

• Clinical Performance Improvement Initiative
• Leapfrog Hospital Safety Reporting
• Federal Health Care Reform
• State Mandates
• Reimbursement Project
• Additional Municipal, Transportation and Sheriff Department Members

MAKE IT SO

• Medical Home Progress
• Flexible Spending Account Enrollment Increases
• Benefit Statements Expanded to Municipal Members
• Life Insurance and GIC Vision Carriers
• Long Term Disability Program Enhancement
• Wellness Pilot and Chapter 288
• MAGIC Upgrade

MIND MELD

Collaborating with others in the health care industry has never been more important as we navigate ahead during these uncertain times.  Federal health care reform, rising health care costs, disparities in provider costs and quality, and continued challenges for the state’s budget continue to pose challenges and we do our best steering by sharing knowledge with others. 

STARDATE FY12 AND BEYOND

As Spock would say, “Change is the essential process of all existence.”  The GIC has a first rate crew and we are ready for the next challenges that lie ahead.  Spatial anomalies and other impediments to forging ahead will not get in the way of our work with others for the benefit of our members and the taxpayers of the Commonwealth.