This amendment adjusts general fund support for the employer share of health insurance premiums. The latest actuarial report projects health insurance costs will increase by
approximately 8.2 percent each year, however, the state Health Insurance Fund is projected to support a portion of the increase due to lower participant utilization. The actuarially determined rates for the state's self-insured plans assume an increase of 4.1 percent the second year, which is less than the 4.5 percent increase assumed in the current Appropriation Act. The rates for the state's two fully insured plans, Kaiser Permanente and Optima Health, are funded at the estimated contractually determined rates.