The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board approved recommended 2027 renewals and rate design for employee health plans while staff and public commenters urged the district to address provider-network and medication-access problems before the plans take effect on Jan. 1.

Trustees and administration discussed proposed revisions to DGB (employee-organization access) policy, focusing on principal discretion, equal‑access risks, legal ambiguity of 'unreasonably withheld,' and employee lunch/ wage‑hour issues. Staff recommended TASB/legal review and planned administrative regulations; public commenters urged caution citing safety and privacy.

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County commissioners heard a multi-hour presentation on switching to third‑party administrators or a partially self‑insured model that presenter Amber Lecher said could reduce annual net costs by low‑to‑mid hundreds of thousands of dollars once claims data and firm quotes are available.