Government Employees Health Association may add 100 jobs to run insurance pool Bizjournals.com
A Kansas City-based health insurance provider is administering the federal government’s high-risk insurance pool, meaning a $2 billion grant that’s expected to create 100 new jobs in Kansas City.
The Government Employees Health Association won the grant from the Department of Health and Human Services . In winning the grant, GEHA will be the sole entity administering the federal high-risk pool in the 21 states that opted not to have their own pools. That does not include Kansas or Missouri, which both chose to operate their own pools using federal dollars.
The insurance provider, which currently contracts with the government to cover health and dental plans for civilian federal employees and retirees, provides benefits to almost 1 million people worldwide. How much that number will increase depends on people’s ability to afford the plan, GEHA spokeswoman Karen Schuler said.
“A lot of people are uninsured, but really whether or not a lot of people will choose this option, we’ll just wait and see,” she said.