CalPERS Raises HMO Premiums by 11.4%

By Lisa Girion

June 18, 2004 12 AM PT

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System as expected adopted health plans for 2005 that raise health-maintenance-organization premiums 11.4% -- the smallest increase in three years.

Preferred-provider-organization enrollees will see rates increase 6.4%.

For the first time, the pension fund set a range of premiums for members employed by local governments, schools and special districts and their dependents. Rates will be lowest for members in the region that includes Los Angeles County.

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Lisa Girion

As an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Girion produced many high-impact stories, including an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Myanmar, which was anthologized in “Global Muckraking” (The New Press, 2014). Her investigation into the health insurance practice of dropping sick patients, known as rescission, was cited in the Affordable Care Act. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She left The Times in 2015.

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