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HEALTH BENEFIT ADMINISTRATION
IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS
by
Patricia Gardner Thomasson
_________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Patricia Gardner Thomasson
Object Description
| Title | Health benefit administration in school districts |
| Author | Thomasson, Patricia Ann Gardner |
| Author email | patt99@adelphia.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Policy, Planning & Administration) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 1992-07-01 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-10-14 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Ferris, Robert |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Picus, Lawrence Odden, Allen |
| Abstract | School districts have been greatly affected by the nationwide crisis in health care costs. The challenge to school districts is to provide health care as a vital part of the total compensation package without contributing to further encroachment on the general fund. Increases in the cost of medical benefits must be contained within the existing budget to prevent them from consuming a disproportionate share of school funds.; This study investigated school districts' recent history of health care administration, the design of their health benefit programs, the major cost containment alternatives, the retirement benefit plans, and the education and communication programs. Specifically it analyzed the degree to which the health benefits plan design fulfilled the district's objectives, provided flexibility to cope with year-to-year fiscal demands, and provided the greatest degree of employee satisfaction.; The population of the study was comprised of 100 school districts located in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties with Average Daily Attendance (ADA) of between 3,500 and 30,000 students. The data were assimilated from three sources: the questionnaire completed by the district health insurance administrator, risk manager, insurance coordinator, or assistant superintendent of business or personnel services; personal interviews with the aforementioned district personnel; and personal interviews of the district benefit consultant or broker. Data analysis was descriptive consisting of frequency tabulations, percentages, distributions, and simple correlations to present and interpret the data.; Findings were based on responses from 75 school districts. A brief list of findings include: 77.3 percent of the districts required an employee to work an assignment of 4 hours a day or 20 hours a week to receive a district-paid contribution; 65.3 percent had placed caps on the amount of their benefit contributions in an effort to control health benefit expenditures; 18 had individually self-insured the medical plan; 23 had selffunded the dental plan; and 20 had self-funded the vision plan; 35 had joined a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) to take advantage of group purchasing; and 64 had chosen to discontinue providing retiree benefits when the employee reached the age of 65. |
| Keyword | health benefits; medical benefits; fringe benefits |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles; Orange; Riverside; San Bernadino |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m867 |
| Rights | Thomasson, Patricia Ann Gardner |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Thomasson-20071014 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Thomasson-20071014.pdf |
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| Full text | HEALTH BENEFIT ADMINISTRATION IN SCHOOL DISTRICTS by Patricia Gardner Thomasson _________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2007 Copyright 2007 Patricia Gardner Thomasson |
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