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Employee Benefit Quick-Reference:

City-Subsidized Medical Benefits

All employees have a complimentary access to ConnectCare to help you with your healthcare decisions.  Get in touch with your personal healthcare advocate at ConnectCare3

More information on medical benefits (both subsidized and voluntary) can be found at the City’s open enrollment page

Life status changes can be made anytime during the year, although newborns must be added within 30 days of birth (social security number is not required to arrive prior to adding your newborn to insurance).

Highmark is committed to helping self-funded customers comply with this new rule and will create and publish the MRFs on your behalf. Highmark will make this information available through the link:

https://mrfdata.hmhs.com.
(Select Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Pennsylvania)

Information will be updated monthly. The detailed pricing information must include:

  • In-Network Rates for all covered in-network items and services
  • Out-of-Network historical rates for all covered items, services and prescription drugs
  • In-Network negotiated rates and historical net prices for all covered prescription drugs by plan at the pharmacy location level. This prescription drug information has been delayed pending additional rules.

This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

Student Loans

You may be eligible to have your loans forgiven after 10 years of qualifying employment and payments.  You should submit an Employment Certification Form (ECF) to the Department of Education to find out if your employment and payments qualify.

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Training

  • New Hire & Annual Training Online (Below)
  • City of Lock Haven Safety Committee (Below)

The city of Lock Haven shall not discriminate in hiring, job assignments, promotion, discipline, termination, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral, and other aspects of employment, on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, military status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

The city of Lock Haven shall make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

If there are any questions or concerns about any type of discrimination in the workplace, they can be brought to the attention of the City Manager. Concerns and reports can be made without fear of reprisal. Anyone found engaging in any type of unlawful discrimination can be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

Workplace Safety

Workplace safety is overseen by the City of Lock Haven Safety Committee, headed by Safety Administrator Bob Neff.

Members of the Safety Committee:

  • Lenny Eisenhower, Equipment Operator (Employee Rep)
  • Gary Ferree, Levee Superintendent (Employer Rep)
  • Mike Glantz, Sewer Superintendent (Employer Rep)
  • Robert Neff, Fire Administrator (Employer Rep)
  • Randy Shady, Plant Maintenance (Employee Rep)
  • Tyler Wooding, Fire Truck Driver (Employee Rep)

New Hire & Annual Safety Training

Fire Extinguisher Use  and download the Safety Talk Sheet

Avoiding Heat Related Injuries  and download the Safety Talk Sheet

Safe Lifting and Material Handling and download the Safety Talk Sheet

Preventing Falls, Slips & Trips

Safe Mowing Habits

Ticks & Lyme Disease and download the Safety Talk Sheet

SDS:  Safety Data Sheets

Distracted Driver Prevention Training

  1. Jacy Good:  Victim of Distracted Driving (6 minutes):  Click here to view this video clip of a survivor’s personal message, “Hang Up and Drive”
  2. The Monkey Business Illusion (2 minutes):  Click here to view this video clip illustrating a fascinating human trait
  3. National Safety Council: Hands-free is not Risk-free (2 minutes):  Click here for the facts vs. myths on cell phone use while driving
  4. Safety National: Attention and Distraction (30 minutes during which you can pause):  Course ID:           LOCKHAVEN.  Student #:           first initial last name (for example, sflake for Snow Flake).  Click here to begin the course

Open Enrolment

2025 OPEN ENROLLMENT IS NOW! OPEN ENROLLMENT WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 2 TO OCTOBER 31, 2023 FOR CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2025.

Each year our medical, dental and vision insurance carriers provide a time period when employees are invited to change their enrollment status without having to meet the criteria of a Qualifying Event. This time period is called “open enrollment.” This year, open enrollment will run from October 2 until October 31, 2024 for changes to take effect January 1, 2025. You Can Learn More About Open Enrollment By Clicking Here To Read Our Annual Notices.

As a City of Lock Haven permanent part-time and full time employee, regular and supplemental insurance options are available to you and details are accessible below. If you have no need to make a change, there is nothing you need to do.  All employees wishing to have vision coverage need to fill out the Universal Benefit Form

The options available for you to consider (if not already enrolled) are listed below.  For coverage to begin January 1, 2025, deductions for premiums will begin on December 13, 2024:

Remember, this is an opportunity for you to make benefit changes without having to meet the criteria of a Qualifying Event or life status change. Life status changes can be made anytime during the year. Expecting a new addition to your family? Please keep in mind that Newborns Must Be Added Within 30 Days Of Birth (social security number is not required to arrive prior to adding your newborn to insurance).

After you review the information provided, you decide to enroll in a new program or have any questions, please contact Administrative Secretary Wendi Spicher, and complete the required enrollment forms by October 31, 2022. If you make changes or signup for new coverage, the change and coverage will become effective January 1, 2024. If you have any questions during the process of deciding to add or alter a coverage, contact erussell@lockhavenpa.gov or by phone at (570) 893-5901.

Highmark is committed to helping self-funded customers comply with this new rule and will create and publish the MRFs on your behalf. Highmark will make this information available through the link: https://mrfdata.hmhs.com .

Information will be updated monthly. The detailed pricing information must include:

  • In-Network Rates for all covered in-network items and services
  • Out-of-Network historical rates for all covered items, services and prescription drugs
  • In-Network negotiated rates and historical net prices for all covered prescription drugs by plan at the pharmacy location level. This prescription drug information has been delayed pending additional rules.

This link leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

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