To:        Members of the HBA of Greater Dallas

From:   Joe Chamberlain, Chairman, HBA of Greater Dallas Health Benefit Trust
            Bob Morris, Executive Vice President/CEO HBA of Greater Dallas

 RE:      Participation in HBA of Greater Dallas Health Benefit Trust

For the last two years, HBA Members and Staff have been working to create a Health Benefit Trust in order to bring a unique and highly competitive health benefit program to the principals and employees of our member companies.  We are at last approaching the time when we will be able to offer a top quality program which will provide our members with many options for coverage and the opportunity to add other elements to their package of benefits.

We have selected the service providers for the program and are in the final negotiations to lock them into contracts. We will be using the United Healthcare services for accessing the physicians, hospitals and clinics, the pharmacy program will be administered by Medco, a large national service company, the Dental and Vision programs will be serviced by Guardian. You can check with your current doctors and dentist to see if they are a part of these groups. You will find the health rates posted in the tab section on the upper right hand side and the dental and vision rates are posted in the description tabs for each of those programs.

Now, we need your help.  If you would like to participate in this program we need to accumulate the data contained on the form that is available on the HBA Mewa website.
 

1. When you get to the website select the “Survey Form” tab found at the top of this page. Print this form out and complete it for each of your employees.  If you have quite a few you can develop an excel spreadsheet with the appropriate headings for each column or use an AscII format file.
   
   Once you have completed this information form or an excel spreadsheet of your own design, please email, FAX, or snail mail it to:

HBA Health Benefit Program
5816 W. Plano Parkway
Plano, TX 75093

Fax: 972-267-0426

2. Next, you should download the sample Insurance Carrier Contact form letter found under the  tab at the top of the page entitled “Insurance Carrier Contact” on the website and follow the instruction as stated. You can forward the returned contact form to the trust when it is received.

Time is of the essence, so your timely return of the requested information will make the program available more quickly. You can read more about the plan design on the website as well as the prospective premium levels.