public employees

PEBB Must Make Deeper Cuts to State Employee Benefits

The full list of health benefit reductions will be decided at the board’s next meeting on April 19
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 >>

PEBB Prioritizes Potential Plan Cuts

But size of the board’s 2012 budget hole remains a mystery
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 >>

Legislation Would Allow School Districts to Opt Out of OEBB

Proponents claim individual districts will save more; Opponents warn of weakened purchasing power
March 15, 2011--A pair of bills allowing smaller school districts to opt out of the Oregon Educators Benefit Board (OEBB) and seek health insurance elsewhere is dividing the state’s education groups.   Read More >>

Oregon Educators Benefit Board Uncovers Fraud by School Employees

But the board decides against an audit this year, citing a shortage of time and money
February 28, 2011 – Several instances of fraudulent claims made to the Oregon Educators Benefit Board by school employees prompted the board to consider conducting an audit. Read More >>

State Employees Impacted by Rising Healthcare Costs

Governor Kitzhaber urges the Public Employees’ Benefit Board to make changes that add value and provide better health
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 >>

PEBB Looks into High Risk Births

The board, which represents state employees, could decide the role of licensed direct entry midwives on Sept. 21
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 >>

State Employees Likely to Face Benefit Reductions

Although cutbacks probably won’t occur until next July, serious discussions are under way
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 >>

PEBB Expected to Increase Rates

The Public Employees Benefit Board is likely to approve an overall 9.93 percent hike when it meets Friday afternoon
July 7, 2010 -- Now that the $34 million hole has been plugged for state employee benefits for 2011, the Public Employees Benefit Board is preparing to accept rate increases to cover that gap when it meets on Friday afternoon. Read More >>

Midwives Lose When PEBB Switched to Providence

Under the old contract, Regence BlueCross BlueShield paid for in-home deliveries by licensed midwives
April 7, 2010 -- There’s a glaring omission in the benefits offered to state employees now that Providence Health Plan holds the reins -- licensed direct entry midwifes can no longer be paid for in-home deliveries. Read More >>

ODS Health Plan Loses $38 million on OEBB Contract

The health insurer recouped that loss after receiving $20 million from its re-insurer and an $18 million loan from OEA Choice Welfare Benefit Trust.
March 17, 2010 -- ODS Health Plan, the major insurer for the state’s 41,844 school teachers and their 61,023 dependents, is bleeding red ink. Read More >>
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