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February 2, 2012—An unexpectedly heated debate transpired in the House Health Care Committee yesterday over whether the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange’s 11 staff members should be able to seek their own healthcare coverage rather than be covered by the Public Employees’ Benefit Board (PEBB), which provides benefits to state employees. Read More >>

January 23, 2012— A committee comprised of nine labor and four management representatives called the Health Engagement Model Joint Labor Management Committee has asked the Public Employees’ Benefit Board (PEBB) to suspend financial penalties for people who decide not to participate in the health engagement model, a wellness plan that has drawn much rancor from state employees. Read More >>

January 23, 2012—The Public Employees’ Benefit Board (PEBB) voted last week to give $155,000 to the Oregon Public Health Division to help fund its Wellness@Work program, a new work-based wellness program for state employees. Read More >>

October 24, 2011—The Public Employees’ Benefit Board postponed voting to spend $165,000 for the Wellness@Work program when it last week, citing the desire to see more concrete outcomes. That worksite wellness program is now used by state agencies under the auspices of the Oregon Public Health Division. Read More >>

July 7, 2011 -- On June 21, Alec Esquivel, a transgender man who works for the state of Oregon as a legal clerk, filed suit against the Public Employees Benefit Board for failing to cover surgeries and hormone treatments he needs to complete gender transitioning. Read More >>

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 >>