Report: PEIA members satisfied with current plans, but specialty drugs driving up costs

CHARLESTON – No special session was called this week to address future costs for West Virginia’s public worker health care benefit program, but a new report aims to provide lawmakers with recommendations for bringing costs down, including booting county and city government participants and spouses with access to other coverage.

The Joint Standing Committee on Insurance and PEIA met Tuesday afternoon on the final day of three-day legislative interim meetings at the State Capitol Building to receive a report from Ben Lewis, managing director of Strategy and Innovation for BDO USA, regarding PEIA, the Public Employees Insurance Agency.