Ryn Coleridge, director of Enterprise Systems and Analytics, presented the Health Service System's 2022 enrollee demographics on Feb. 10, noting small year-over-year changes but several noteworthy trends.
Key points: total lives decreased about 1 percent; the system added a Health Net Canopy Care HMO with 322 lives; the non-Medicare population rose 3 percent while the Medicare population rose 4 percent; health-care flexible spending accounts rose 10 percent and dependent-care FSAs rose 45 percent after targeted outreach; and the overall average age of active employees ticked up slightly.
Coleridge cautioned that race/ethnicity data are incomplete for a subset of members and that certain analyses rely on home addresses rather than workplace locations. Commissioners asked how demographic changes feed into actuarial rates and strategic planning; the department said the data inform rates/benefits negotiations and further analytics will be produced during the rates-and-benefits cycle.