About Us

We Have Grown!
1988	2007
6,100 people covered	19,391 people covered
13 Organizations	27 Organizations
2,600 Contracts	9,406 Contracts Individual, Family & Medicare
1 Plan Option Plan 1: Matrix Base - Indemnity	5 Plan Options: Plan 1: Matrix Base - Indemnity [phase out 7/2008] Plan 2: Matrix Alternate - Indemnity [phase out 7/2008] Plan 3: PPO [Preferred Provider Organization] Plan 4: Alternate PPO Plan 5: PPO III
	approx. $103 million in premium payments

• The Consortium:

  is governed by a 23-member Board of Trustees seats are allocated based on Trust Agreement formulas represents Dutchess, Sullivan and Ulster Counties promotes the collaboration between management and labor The Trust is proud of its history of this cooperation includes Association/Union Representatives, School Business Officials and Superintendents

• Member Organizations

  Arlington CSD	Livingston Manor CSD	Roscoe CSD
  Dover UFSD	Millbrook CSD	Saugerties CSD
  Dutchess County BOCES	Onteora CSD	Spackenkill UFSD
  Dutchess Community College	Pawling CSD	Sullivan County BOCES
  Ellenville CSD	Pine Plains CSD	Sullivan West CSD
  Fallsburg CSD	Poughkeepsie CSD	Ulster County BOCES
  Highland CSD	Red Hook CSD	Wallkill CSD
  Hyde Park CSD	Rhinebeck CSD	Wappingers CSD
  Liberty CSD	Rondout Valley CSD	Webutuck CSD

  
  
• Board of Trustees

  Lisa Barker Arlington CSD	Wayne Kurlander Hyde Park CSD	Linda Peters Webutuck CSD
  James J. Blake CSEA	Kurt Robb Millbrook CSD	Craig Onofry, At-Large Dover UFSD
  Christopher Prill Dover UFSD	Melinda Reichlin NEA/NY	Paul Finch, At-Large Red Hook CSD
  Linda Poleski Dutchess County BOCES	Bruce Martin (Chairperson) Red Hook CSD	Linda Kaumeyer, At-Large Pine Plains CSD
  Pasquale Delli Carpini DC United Teachers Council	Thomas Burnell Rhinebeck CSD	Dr. Lois Colletta, At-Large Spackenkill UFSD
  Robert Maier DC United Teachers Council	Laurie Silver Sullivan County Teachers Association	Susan A. Schmidt, At-Large Sullivan County BOCES
  Lisa Wiles Ellenville CSD	David Thompson (Vice Chairperson) Ulster County NYSUT	Shirley Cannelli (Secretary to the Trust) Dutchess County BOCES
  	Richard Powell Wappingers CSD

  
  
• Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield Account Representative:
  
  
  • Renee Bast
    
    
• Consultants to DEHIC:
  
  
  • Susan Savas / Joseph Rogerson
    Rose and Kiernan, Inc.


• Legal Counsel to DEHIC:
  
  
  • Gleason, Dunn, Walsh and O'Shea
    
    

  For more information, please contact:

  Bruce Martin, Chairperson
  Dutchess Educational Health Insurance Consortium
  c/o Dutchess County BOCES
  5 BOCES Road
  Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
  845.486.4800
  fax: 845.486.4981
  eMail: judy.paolercio@dcboces.org