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BY BROOKE SJOBERG
As the district plans its budget for the 2025-26 financial year, Round Rock ISD’s chief human resource officer, Eddie Curran, has put a new spin on self-funded health care in a proposition to the district: open an in-house clinic. Curran floated the idea to RRISD trustees in February, and the district has since sought a request for proposals for it. The results of the RFP process have not yet been shared publicly. The potential on-site clinic would provide many of the services employees receive from their primary care doctors and urgent care. He said district preference would likely be to host it in a district facility, but other options RRISD explores in-house clinic for employees
What’s next?
Round Rock ISD health finances
The process to create and open the clinic could take about two years, Curran said. The proposal could return to the board in a more official capacity, should trustees seek a request for proposal for what the true cost of opening such a facility would be.
per-year spent on each employee $5,592
in planned expenditures for FY 2024-25 $30M shortfall in FY 2024-25 health plan budget $477,187 increase in district health care costs since 2021 15%
“More than a third of Americans don’t have a primary care provider. They go to the doctor when they need to but they don’t actually have somebody that ... is able to treat them on a proactive basis.” EDDIE CURRAN, CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICER
SOURCE: ROUND ROCK ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
include contracting with a provider in a leased space or a third party to own and operate a clinic. The latter would cost more, he said. For many years, the district has offered a $0 premium high-deductible health plan for employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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