Benefits
This page contains important links to forms and pages connected with the PEBB 2010 Plan and supplementary benefits
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PEBB 2010 Plan Alert URGENT!!!!
It is imperative that you check here to see if your health care providers are in the new Providence Network. If not, notify Ernie Pressman by calling at 346-2967 or sending him email at pressman@uoregon.edu. There is only one network under the new plan, the equivalent of Regence's preferred provider network. There won't be anything like the Regence participating provider network. If you opt to go to a provider who is not in the Providence network, you will be responsible for 100% of the difference between the billed amount and the "usual and customary charges" as well as 30% of the "usual and customary charges." There is no out-of-pocket limit on the amount you pay that isn't part of "usual and customary charges". The only way to limit this expense is to get your provider to forgive the difference. |
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There are many options for health insurance plans after you terminate employment with the university. Most of them will still be available when PEBB goes with the self insurance plan in 2010. Read about your options here.
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PEBB had a Board Meeting on 7/21/09. Marie Vitulli and Dennis Zeimer attended
the meeting and Marie spoke and provided the Board with written comments expressing concerns that UO faculty members have about the new plan. Here is a copy of her written comments.
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PEBB moves to a self-insurance plan in 2010 with Providence as plan administrator.
Many people at UO have raised questions about the new plan. We review those questions and the answers we have received as of 7/21/09.
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Here is a list of questions raised by several UO faculty about PEBB's decision to self-insure and their choice of Providence as plan administrator.
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This is an account of the PEBB presentation by Sharyn Clough, Vice-President of the OSU Chapter of AAUP.
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Notes on PEBB Presentation at OSU Faculty Senate Meeting on 6/11/09
Linda King, UO Associate Vice-President for Human Resources wrote up this summary
of the presentation by PEBB and Providence representatives at the OSU Faculty Senate meeting on June 11, 2009. You can access this summary
here.
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On August 12, 2009 members of the UO community met with Joan Kapowich, Director of PEBB. Joan Kapowich gave answers to a slate of questions that was prepared by Linda Ettinger, Nathan Tublitz, and Marie Vitulli of UO. We report on the meeting the answers to these questions in this article.
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Representatives from PEBB, Providence Health Plans, and PBH/OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions were on campus June 30 to present information and answer questions about the Self-insured PEBB Statewide Medical Plan going into effect on January 1, 2010. UO Benefits Administrator Ernie Pressman supplied these notes of the meeting.
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In the April PEBB Newsletter there was an announcement that starting in 2010 PEBB would move to "self insurance" instead of having traditional insurance plans. PEBB chose Providence as plan administrator.
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The PERS Employer Contribution rates for the 2009-11 biennium will take effect on July 1, 2009. In most cases, these rates will be substantially lower than in 2007-09. Mercer, the PERS actuarial firm, gave a report at the May 29, 2009 PERB meeting. Read more here.
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Read about benefits won by collective bargaining agreements.
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