College Station ISD school board members switch employee health insurance providers

This podcast contains comments from the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting.Around 1,500 College Station ISD employees are dealing with a new provider of health insurance.Price was the driving factor in the CSISD school board decision's at their June 16th meeting.Changing to Baylor Scott & White (BSW) starting September 1 was going to save between $87 and $455 dollars a month, depending on the plan, compared with staying with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas for the 2026-2027 school year.CSISD board members were told Blue Cross was raising their rates 28 percent because the dollar amount of claims they paid last year was nine percent above the revenue they received from CSISD employees.More money paid in claims over revenue from premiums was also the reason CSISD received four proposals out of soliciting 17 health insurance carriers.Board members were told as many as one-fourth of CSISD employees will have to switch providers from the St. Joseph to the BSW network.Much of the CSISD board discussion was about the short amount of time that members and employees were given to review the proposals.Click HERE to read and download a memo about CSISD health insurance that was part of the agenda of the June 16, 2026 CSISD board meeting.Click HERE to read and download presentation materials at the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting.