Executive Office for Administration and Finance
Group Insurance Commission
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Projected Recommended
FY95 FY96
Budgetary Direct Appropriations
GROUP INSURANCE COMMISSION ADMINISTRATION
1108-5100 For the administration of the group insurance 1,826,788 1,819,892
commission
GROUP INSURANCE PREMIUM AND PLAN COSTS - COMMONWEALTH SHARE
1108-5200 For the commonwealth's share of group insurance 429,849,769 452,199,360
premiums and plan costs incurred in fiscal year
nineteen hundred and ninety-six; provided, that the
budget bureau shall charge the department of employment
and training and other departments, authorities,
agencies, and divisions that have federal or other
funds allocated to them for this purpose for that
portion of group insurance premiums and plan costs as
it determines should be borne by such funds, and shall
notify the comptroller of the amounts to be
transferred, after similar determination, from the
several state or other funds, and amounts received in
payment of all such charges or such transfers shall be
credited to the General Fund; provided further, that
not more than forty-eight million dollars shall be
expended for prior-year payments for costs incurred
through the commission’s self-insured health plans;
provided further, that the group insurance commission
shall obtain reimbursement for premium and
administrative expenses from other non-state funded
agencies and authorities; provided further, that
notwithstanding the provisions of section twenty-six of
chapter twenty-nine of the General Laws, the commission
is hereby authorized to negotiate, purchase and execute
contracts prior to July first of each year for a policy
or policies of group insurance as authorized by chapter
thirty-two A of the General Laws; and provided further,
that the commonwealth's share of the group insurance
premium for state employees who retired on or before
July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-four, as
provided in section eight of said chapter thirty-two A,
and for the purposes of section fourteen of said
chapter thirty-two A, shall be ninety percent of the
total monthly premiums and rates as established by the
commission, and that the commonwealth's share of the
group insurance premium for state employees who retired
after July first, nineteen hundred and ninety-four, as
provided in section eight of said chapter thirty-two A,
and for the purposes of section fourteen of said
chapter thirty-two A, shall be eighty-five percent of
such premiums and rates, and that the commonwealth's
share of the group insurance premium for active state
employees, as provided in section eight of said chapter
thirty-two A and for the purposes of section fourteen
of said chapter thirty-two A, shall be seventy-five
percent of such premiums and rates
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Executive Office for Administration and Finance
Group Insurance Commission
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Projected Recommended
FY95 FY96
MAIL ORDER PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT PLAN
1108-5220 For the mail order prescription drug program 13,983,975 14,403,494
HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS PRIOR-YEAR PAYMENTS
1108-5230 40,482,244
GROUP INSURANCE PREMIUM FOR RETIRED GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES
1108-5350 For elderly governmental retirees’ premiums 3,136,054 2,366,054
GROUP INSURANCE PREMIUM FOR RETIRED MUNICIPAL TEACHERS AND THEIR
DEPENDENTS
1108-5400 For retired municipal teachers’ premiums and the audit 19,942,075 20,540,337
of said premiums
Local Aid Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00
FOR THE PROVISION OF DENTAL AND VISION BENEFITS
1108-5500 Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter thirty-two A 1,563,640 3,174,189
of the General Laws to the contrary, for the provision
of dental and vision benefits for those active
employees of the commonwealth, not including employees
of authorities and any other political subdivisions,
who are not otherwise provided such benefits pursuant
to a separate appropriation or the provisions of a
contract or collective bargaining agreement; provided,
that said employees shall pay at least twenty-five
percent of the monthly premium established by the
commission for such benefits
Trust & Other Spending
1120-2300 950,000 950,000
1120-2611 210,000 210,000
1120-3611 8,000 8,000
1120-5611 540,000 540,000
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