2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 10, Chapters 366 - 430
ORS Chapter 413
413.017 Public Health Benefit Purchasers Committee and Health Care Workforce Committee.

(1) The Oregon Health Policy Board shall establish the committees described in subsections (2) and (3) of this section.

(2)(a) The Public Health Benefit Purchasers Committee shall include individuals who purchase health care for the following:

(A) The Public Employees Benefit Board.

(B) The Oregon Educators Benefit Board.

(C) Trustees of the Public Employees Retirement System.

(D) A city government.

(E) A county government.

(F) A special district.

(G) Any private nonprofit organization that receives the majority of its funding from the state and requests to participate on the committee.

(b) The Public Health Benefit Purchasers Committee shall:

(A) Identify and make specific recommendations to achieve uniformity across all public health benefit plan designs based on the best available clinical evidence, recognized best practices for health promotion and disease management, demonstrated cost-effectiveness and shared demographics among the enrollees within the pools covered by the benefit plans.

(B) Develop an action plan for ongoing collaboration to implement the benefit design alignment described in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph and shall leverage purchasing to achieve benefit uniformity if practicable.

(C) Continuously review and report to the Oregon Health Policy Board on the committee s progress in aligning benefits while minimizing the cost shift to individual purchasers of insurance without shifting costs to the private sector or the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange.

(c) The Oregon Health Policy Board shall work with the Public Health Benefit Purchasers Committee to identify uniform provisions for state and local public contracts for health benefit plans that achieve maximum quality and cost outcomes. The board shall collaborate with the committee to develop steps to implement joint contract provisions. The committee shall identify a schedule for the implementation of contract changes. The process for implementation of joint contract provisions must include a review process to protect against unintended cost shifts to enrollees or agencies.

(d) Proposals and plans developed in accordance with this subsection shall be completed by October 1, 2010, and shall be submitted to the Oregon Health Policy Board for its approval and possible referral to the Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2010.

(3)(a) The Health Care Workforce Committee shall include individuals who have the collective expertise, knowledge and experience in a broad range of health professions, health care education and health care workforce development initiatives.

(b) The Health Care Workforce Committee shall coordinate efforts to recruit and educate health care professionals and retain a quality workforce to meet the demand that will be created by the expansion in health care coverage, system transformations and an increasingly diverse population.

(c) The Health Care Workforce Committee shall conduct an inventory of all grants and other state resources available for addressing the need to expand the health care workforce to meet the needs of Oregonians for health care.

(4) Members of the committees described in subsections (2) and (3) of this section who are not members of the Oregon Health Policy Board are not entitled to compensation but shall be reimbursed from funds available to the board for actual and necessary travel and other expenses incurred by them by their attendance at committee meetings, in the manner and amount provided in ORS 292.495. [2009 c.595 7]