Nearly

$200,000 will have to be taken from Coweta County's

general reserve fund to help fund the health insurance

plan for its employees.

That's the

grim news that assistant county administrator Chuck

Crawford delivered to the Board of Commissioners Tuesday

afternoon.

Crawford

explained that the problem lies in an oversight by the

company that oversees the county's self insured plan,

Group Resources.

Apparently,

an employee at Group Resources put six months worth of

bills from XpressScripts, the company that handles

prescriptions for the program, in a drawer and didn't pay

them. When the bills were discovered, the county received

a bill for $143,000.

"I

can't believe XpressScripts didn't say something before

now," Crawford said.

To pay the

bills and get the insurance fund back in the black would

require $200,000 from the general fund," he said.

"We're

spending more than the premiums are paying for," he

added.

This is the

second time this year the county has had to kick in funds

to supplement the program. Earlier, the county

contributed $72,000.

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