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April 12, 2011 -- To stave off financial catastrophe, members of the Public Employees’ Benefit Board realized last Monday that they’d have to make even deeper cuts to the healthcare benefits of state employees and their dependents than they had earlier imagined. Read More >>

March 25, 2011--The Public Employees’ Benefit Board (PEBB) agreed last week to implement benefit cuts and surcharges to its members that will help it close a looming budget gap somewhere between $20.5 million and $104.5 million. Read More >>

March 16, 2011--The Public Employees’ Benefit Board, facing a gaping budget hole next year whose size is still unknown, has devised a draft priority list of potential cost-saving changes to health benefits for state workers.   Read More >>

March 8, 2011 -- The Public Employees Benefit Board voted unanimously last week to increase cost-sharing to its 127,000 members beginning April 1. Read More >>

February 23, 2011 -- With an impending budget shortfall of $10 million this plan year, the Public Employees’ Benefit Board faces tough choices about state employee health benefits when it meets March 1. Read More >>

October 20, 2010 -- When it comes to debating the issues, Dudley is probably wise to stay clear of healthcare, which is likely why nobody from his campaign responded to The Lund Report when asked to answer a short list of healthcare questions. Read More >>

September 23, 2010 – Midwives got a reprieve when the Public Employee Benefit Board met earlier this week. Rather than come up with criteria to determine when a birth attended by a midwife should be paid by Providence Health Plans, the board decided to leave that decision in the hands of the licensing agency, the Board of Direct Entry Midwifery. Last year midwives attended 20 births for state employees. Read More >>

September 16, 2010 -- Midwives are back in the hot seat again. This time the Public Employees’ Benefit Board will decide what criteria should be used to determine whether charges for a birth attended by a midwife should be paid by Providence Health Plans, the statewide health plan.  Read More >>

August 25, 2010 -- With Oregon facing a $2.7 billion deficit next biennium, health insurance benefits for the state’s 52,000 employees could be drastically reduced. Read More >>

July 22, 2010 -- The tension between union and management officials was virtually non-existent on Tuesday when discussions revolved around healthcare benefits for state workers in 2012 and beyond. Read More >>