Committee includes individuals who purchase health care for the Public Employees Benefit Board (PEBB), Oregon Educators Benefit Board (OEBB), Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), a city government, a county government, a special district or any private, nonprofit organization that receives the majority of its funding from the state and requests to participate.

 

Duties:

• Identify and make specific recommendations to achieve uniformity across all public health benefit plan designs
• Continuous review/reporting to OHPB on progress
• Develop action plan for ongoing collaboration to implement benefit design
• Identify uniform provisions for state and local public contracts for health benefit plans (in collaboration with OHPB) including:
  • Steps to implement joint contract provisions
  • A schedule for implementation of contract changes
  • A review process to protect against unintended cost shifts

Deadlines:

• Oct.1, 2010: Proposals and plans completed
• Dec. 31, 2010: Proposals and plans due to OHPB for possible referral to Legislature

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Committee includes individuals with the collective expertise, knowledge and experience in a broad range of health professions, health care education and health care workforce development initiatives.

 

Duties:

• Coordinate efforts to recruit, educate, retain quality workforce
• Conduct inventory of all grants and other state resources available for expanding workforce
• Establish goals to guide grants awarded from the Healthcare Workforce Strategic Fund

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