PEIA Finance Board Public Hearings

The PEIA Finance Board wants your input! Proposals for Plan Year 2024

Scheduled public hearings around the state are as follows:

• Monday, March 27, 2023 – Charleston
  • Culture Center Charleston
    1900 Kanawha Blvd East, Charleston, WV 25305
• Tuesday, March 28, 2023 – ​Huntington
  • Huntington, Mountain Health Arena 
    1 Civic Center Plaza, Huntington, WV
• Tuesday, March 28, 2023 – Morgantown
  • Hampton Inn & Suites University Town Centre
    325 Granville Sq, Morgantown, WV 26501
• Wednesday, March 29, 2023 – Martinsburg
  • Holiday Inn Martinsburg
    301 Foxcroft Avenue, Martinsburg, WV 25401

Here’s the schedule in each location:

Here’s the schedule in each location:

​5-6 p.m. – Hearing Registration

• Everyone attending the hearing must register.  If you want to speak at the hearing, indicate that at registration.

6-8 p.m. – Public Hearing

• The proposals for Plan Year 2024 will be presented, and members of the board will take input from the audience.

If you can’t attend a hearing in person, please submit comments to the Finance Board in writing to 601 57th St., SE, Suite 2, Charleston, WV 25304-2345, or via e-mail to: PEIAComments@wv.gov.

The Finance Board will meet again March 30 at 1:00 p.m. ​to consider comments obtained in the public meetings and to adopt the Finance Plan for Plan Year 2024​. ​

The major changes, effective July 1, 2023, include:

1. Imposition of the spouse surcharge for active employee policyholders from state agencies, colleges, universities, and county boards of education whose spouses are offered employer-sponsored insurance coverage but who choose to get coverage through a plan offered by PEIA. This change does not affect non-state agencies, retirees, spouses who are employed by PEIA-participating agencies, or spouses whose coverage is through Medicare, Medicaid, or TRICARE.
2. Increasing health premiums to get the plan back to an 80/20 employer/employee premium split for state agencies, colleges, universities, and county boards of education by July 1, 2023. A fourth across-the-board pay raise for state employees by Gov. Jim Justice will help cushion the impact felt by plan members.
3. Increasing reimbursement to providers to a minimum of 110% of Medicare’s reimbursement.​

​Thanks for your patience as we work to get changes in place in advance of Open Enrollment, which begins April 2, 2023.