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Northwest Synod of Wisconsin Earns Board of Pensions Health Plan Discount
Abstract: First Synod to qualify for Board of Pensions incentive.
The Northwest Synod of Wisconsin is the first of 65 ELCA synods to earn a 2 percent discount on 2008 contributions it makes to the church's health benefits plan for its employees. For the NW Synod of Wisconsin, the discount will result in savings of more than $20,000 for the rest of this year.
The discount is part of an ELCA Board of Pensions incentive program to help ELCA employers (synods, seminaries, congregations and Churchwide offices) encourage eligible employees and spouses to complete the confidential Mayo Clinic Health Risk Assessment offered through the Board of Penions EmbodyHealth Web portal.
An employer qualifies for the discount when more than 75 percent of their eligible employees complete the health risk assessment
A scorecard indicating each employer's progress toward the 75% goal is published on the BOP web site. You might want to check your synod's progress. It appears to us that the Montana Synod has a good chance to become the 2nd synod to qualify for the discount.
NW Synod of Wisconsin Bishop Duane C. Pederson said the synod promoted the health risk assessment at all synod gatherings and at visits to pastors and congregations. The synod made laptop computers available at its synod assembly so ELCA health plan members could complete the assessment on the spot.
The ELCA Board of Pensions is a $7 billion nonprofit corporation providing retirement, health and other benefits and related services for ELCA pastors, lay ministers, employees and their families.
The health risk assessment has been available to plan members for four years, but 2008 is the first year financial incentives have been offered to those who complete the assessment.
Synods and organizations still have time to earn the 2% discount for 2008 by completing the health risk assessment. The 2008 health risk assessment closes Sept. 30.
