Arnel Wetzel
Director of Human Resources
Email: Wetzela@cityofnewportrichey.org
Phone: (727) 853-1019
Responsibilities
The Human Resources Department consists of five function areas, which include:
- Benefits and risk management
- Employee relations
- Employment
- Pay and classification
- Training
The department maintains a customer focus for both the internal and external customer, providing services to employees and citizens alike.
Equal Opportunity Disclosure
The City of New Port Richey promotes and enforces an active policy of equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability. The city policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, rates of pay and other forms of compensation, selection for training, use of all facilities, and participation in all city-related activities. Furthermore, it is the city’s policy to comply with all civil rights laws.
Insurance Requirement
Under the Transparency in Coverage Rule, issued in 2020 by the US Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury, enforced beginning 7/1/22, health plans and health insurers must publish two separate
machine-readable files (MRFs) as follows:
This is the link the general public can use to access the MRFs:
https://www.cigna.com/legal/compliance/machine-readable-files
This link leads to the machine-readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and include negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed amounts between health plans and health care providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.