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by Yvonne Cuzick
Battalion Reporter
A new hospitalization and
medical insurance program that
will result in more take-home
pay for many Texas A&M Uni
versity System employees will go
into effect September 1.
Effective September 1, the
State of Texas will increase its
$58 contribution toward the cost
of an employee’s insurance
program to $70.
John Honea, director of in
surance and risk management at
Texas A&M, says this increase,
combined with the favorable
premium rates in the new'
medical insurance program,
should result in more take-home
pay for many system employees.
The new medical insurance
program offers two plans that
include features aimed at con
tainment of the rapidly rising
cost of health care.
Premium rates for each plan
take into consideration six new
cost containment features: re
quired second opinions on elec
tive surgery, pre-admission test
ing performed on an out-patient
basis, incentives for use of
ambulatory surgical centers,
penalties for unnecessary Friday
or Saturday hospital admissions,
extended care facilities/home
health care and hospice care.
Both plans cover customary
charges in the event of treat
ment for illness, injury or pre
gnancy and also cover catas
trophic accidents or illnesses, as
well as more routine services.
The primary group insur
ance package includes $5,000 of
required life insurance and
$5,000 of accidental death and
dismemberment insurance for
each employee.
Under the new program,
Plan I covers 100 percent of the
eligible expenses for bed-patient
hospitalization with a $50 de
ductible per admission. The de
ductible is waived for readmis
sion within 30 days for the same
disorder. Eighty percent of
other medical expenses, such as
surgeon’s fees, doctor’s visits
and physical therapy sessions,
are paid after a $200 calendar
year deductible.
Plan II is a “Major Medical”
plan. Eighty percent of all eligi
ble health care expenses, both in
and out of the hospital, are paid
after a $400 calendar year de
ductible.
Rates for Plan I are: em
ployee only — $66.54; employee
and one dependent — $135.23;
employee and two or more de
pendents — $176.98; and em
ployee and one dependent co
vered under Medicare —
$112.86.
Rates for Plan II are: em
ployee only — $53.01; employee
and one dependent — $108.16;
employee and two or more de
pendents — $141.48; and em
ployee and one dependent co
vered under Medicare —
$94.91.
Meetings to explain the new
insurance program and answer
questions will be held at 9 a.m.
Aug. 2 and 3 in 109 Academic
and Agency.
erit pay alternative seen
DID YOU KNOW?
by Yvonne Cuzick
Battalion Reporter
l|Vhile legislators have prop-
)sed action such as teacher merit
es to raise the quality of edu-
ty well lock
are reached
aid, is that tht
are often sol
in be madethai
tie piece is tal»Lj oni a f ew x exas a&M educa-
unravel. ion professors see differenti-
he said, is thaiited staffing as a more effective
i considerableepternative.
t the philosopiB’fhe difference in the two
:h a particulari}PP roaches is this:
r o >> Bunder a merit raise plan, all
^ |j fathers are assumed to have the
, ... f ame duties and responsibilities
:r in a shiftfw® are se i ectec l f or raises
incept oi oBhrdjng to how' well they per-
the comniiijorm them.
approach to»BUnder the differentiated
raffing plan, however, teachers
ennis, D-Miss iregrouped according to educa-
finds much ' ona ^ training and areas of ex-
tissions, notinffe with different pay scales
r r .L 0 i°r difierent levels ol work.
( . , ■Each teacher would progress
of the presided one leyel lo ano / her 6 for
Biniple, from apprentice to
Bfessional teacher to senior
"■'bather and so on, Dr. Dean
igan, the dean of the Col-
im
e of Education, said.
“It would be very much like a
Udllifliversity structure,” he said.
|The differentiated staffing
would allow teachers to
ove into areas they enjoy the
lost, which would provide in-
entives for teachers currently
the schools and for recent
mtrak delays
Han holding
ursestrings
education graduates to make (differentiated staffing) pretty
teaching their career, Corrigan well,” he said,
said. Erlandson said merit raises
Corrigan said an important would create pressure in the
reason why people leave the school because it often would be
teaching field is not just because hard for principals to decide
of low salaries but also because who to give the merit raises to if,
of the amount of stress teaching for instance, there are too many
involves. teachers the principals feel de-
In an article in the Bryan- serve the raises.
College Station Eagle, Corrigan Merit raises also can cause a
wrote, “The bottom line is that morale problem for the teachers
for many teachers today the re- who do not receive the raise,
wards are few, morale is low and Erlandson said. Differentiated
a large number of the best staffing, however, would give
teachers are bailing out.” teachers much more control
Differentiated staffing could over their own future by giving
help keep quality teachers in the them the opportunity to special-
field because each teacher ize in one area or move on to
would be doing what he or she another area, Erlandson said,
wants to do, Corrigan said. School programs closely re-
Dr. David Erlandson, associ- lated to the concept of differen-
ate professor of educational dated staffing are in effect in
administration, agreed that dif- South Carolina’s Charlotte-
ferentiated staffing is a good Mechlenburg School District
answer to the question of how to and in Tennessee, but Texas has
keep quality teachers in the not yet adopted any similar
teaching field. plans.
“I think principals and admi- Corrigan said, however, that a
nistrators could live with that committee has been formed to
research ways to improve the
quality of education in Texas.
Corrigan is a member of that
group, the Select Committee on
Public Education, which recent
ly met with Governor Mark
White, Lt. Governor Bill Hobby
and Speaker Gib Lewis to dis
cuss future plans for the com
mittee.
“The meeting mainly pro
vided an information base,”
Corrigan said.
In August, the members plan
to visit 10 to 20 Texas school
districts to gather more infor
mation on the state of education
which should aid in making re
commendations on needed im
provements in the school sys
tems.
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