WMU HOME > ABOUT WMU > WMU NEWS

WMU News

WMU formally joins health insurance collective

Feb. 21, 2005

KALAMAZOO--Acting at their Feb. 18 meeting, Western Michigan University trustees authorized the university administration to become part of a nonprofit corporation called MUCH--Michigan University Coalition on Health.

Founded in 1997 as an informal statewide committee, MUCH seeks to use the collective leverage of all of the state's public universities to control health care and insurance costs through group purchases of claims processing services, pharmacy benefit manager's services, life and long-term disability coverages, and other related costs.

To carry out its goals more effectively and better effect savings, MUCH is now seeking to formalize the arrangement and secure legal authority to contract on behalf of all of the institutions it represents. WMU is one of 12 universities whose business officers have recommended approval of the new arrangement.

Media contact: Cheryl Roland, 269 387-8400, cheryl.roland@wmich.edu

WMU News
Office of University Relations
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5433 USA
269 387-8400
www.wmich.edu/wmu/news