From myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Tue Aug 2 11:35:57 2011 From: myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (MyOEBB system updates) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:35:57 -0700 Subject: [MyOEBB] OEBB - Special Information Distribution During Open Enrollment Message-ID: Yesterday Denise Hall sent the message below to Superintendents and Business Managers. In response to some questions that have come up, here are some additional clarifications: 1) The additional carrier-specific material will only be mailed to those employees who have that carrier's plan available to them for 2011-12. For example, if an employee does not have a Kaiser plan available as one of their options, they will not receive additional materials from Kaiser. 2) Our mailing schedule for the Open Enrollment packets included some buffer time to allow for unforeseen delays. Luckily, things went smoothly and the packets have already begun to go out in batches. Some employees have already begun receiving their packets and they should all be postmarked no later than August 5th. As a reminder, electronic copies of the Open Enrollment materials are available on the Entity Resources page of our website: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/entity/eeResources.shtml. Please feel free to encourage employees to contact OEBB directly for assistance. Our Member Services staff can be reached by phone at 1-888-469-6322, or via e-mail at oebb.benefits at state.or.us. Thank you! Jackie Cowsill Communications Coordinator Oregon Educators Benefit Board ________________________________ Dear Superintendents, Business Managers and Benefits Administrators: In preparing for the 2011-12 open enrollment period, we would like to have more information available to employees as they make their benefit decisions for the upcoming plan year. In years past we have mailed packets to employees' home addresses that included an overview of any changes to the benefits program and plans and very high-level plan and benefit information. We will be sending these packets out again this year and have told the carriers that they can send out supplemental information individually if they would like to do so. We anticipate both the OEBB packet and any information sent by the individual carriers should begin showing up at employees' home addresses sometime during the week of August 8, 2011. One of the main reasons we asked carriers to consider sending additional carrier-specific material directly to employees is to try to ensure every employee understands the options available well enough to select the plans and/or coverages that best meet the individual's and/or family's needs. This is especially important for those employees who have medical plans available to them that represent an organized system of care (i.e., the Kaiser and Providence medical plan options and ODS Medical Plan 4). While the Kaiser plans and system of care have been a part of many entities' benefit offerings for years, the Providence Medical Home plans (2 and 2A) and ODS' Community Care Plan (ODS Medical Plan 4) will be a new concept in health care for many educational employees beginning October 1, 2011. Additionally, the number of employees with access to the high deductible health plan (ODS Medical Plan 9) and a health savings account (HSA through U.S. Bank) will more than double effective October 1. With all change, education and the resulting knowledge is key to success. The additional information will be limited to no more than a two-sided 8x11 page of information that will focus on the main points a person needs to know to be able to make a good decision of whether the coverage or plan will meet their needs. It may also provide some additional information about the value-added resources available through the specific carrier. If the optional benefit carriers (Unum and The Standard) choose to send out the additional material, it may also include the rates for plan offering(s). We have also extended the opportunity to Reliant Behavioral Health (RBH) so employees with an employee assistance program (EAP) benefit available to them are reminded of this very valuable, but often forgotten, benefit provided by you, their employer. We understand there will be some employees that would prefer not to receive any more unsolicited mail. However, we believe that most recipients will be happy to have more-specific and detailed information about the plans and carriers as they consider their coverage options for the 2011-12 plan year. We hope these mailings do not result in many, if any, calls to entity staff. Please feel free to encourage any employee that does contact you to call the OEBB Member Services team at 888-469-6322 or by email at OEBB.benefits at state.or.us. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thank you. Sincerely, Denise L. Hall Deputy Administrator Oregon Educators Benefit Board http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OEBB (503) 378-5133 (503) 378-5832 FAX OEBB has a new weight management program! Pass it on..... http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/OEBB/WeightMgmt.shtml *****CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE***** This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the addressee or it appears from the context or otherwise that you have received this e-mail in error, please advise me immediately by reply e-mail, keep the contents confidential, and immediately delete the message and any attachments from your system. ************************************ jc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT20101764.txt URL: From myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Tue Aug 9 13:34:54 2011 From: myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (MyOEBB system updates) Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 13:34:54 -0700 Subject: [MyOEBB] MyOEBB System Maintenance and Downtime Message-ID: Hello, In order to update our MyOEBB systems (Administrative and Member Module) for Open Enrollment OEBB will need to bring the systems down for maintenance. The MyOEBB systems will be unavailable on Thursday evening (August 11th) starting at 6 p.m. PST until Friday morning (August 12th) at 9 a.m. PST. OEBB will be adding code which includes: * Dependent Eligibility Verification * Changes to our Benefit Summary which show OEBB OAR's * Do-it-Yourself QSC's (available to everyone on October 1st) * Email Option of Open Enrollment Materials * Guarantee-issue of LTC * Medical Evidence for Voluntary LTD * Zip Codes Restrictions for ODS Medical Plan 4 Thanks for your cooperation and have a great week! Linda Tullis Benefits Manager Oregon Educators Benefit Board 1225 Ferry Street SE Salem, OR 97301 Office: (503) 378-3329 Fax: (503) 378-5832 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Mon Aug 15 08:31:11 2011 From: myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (MyOEBB system updates) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:31:11 -0700 Subject: [MyOEBB] MyOEBB Open Enrollment 2011-12 Message-ID: MyOEBB Open Enrollment 2011-12 Welcome to open enrollment! Thank you for taking time to review this email which highlights some important information and links pertaining to open enrollment. The question we are hearing most often is "Do I need to do anything?" While employees are not required to re-enroll in benefit plans this year, we ask that you remind them of the importance of logging in this year to complete the Dependent Eligibility Verification Review, update the Medicare flag for themselves and their dependents, enter Out-of-Area dependent addresses, identify their preferred way to receive benefit information, enroll in a new plan if their existing plan isn't available for 2011-12 and enter their race and ethnicity information which is now required under federal health care reform. OEBB wishes each educational entity a successful open enrollment period. MyOEBB Benefits Helpdesk - 1(888) 4MY-OEBB or 1(888) 469-6322 Hours: August 15th through September 14th - (Monday-Friday) 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. (PST) Thursday, September 15th - 7 a.m. to midnight (PST) MyOEBB Benefits Email oebb.benefits at state.or.us MyOEBB Admin Module Link https://myoebb.org/oebb/!bms.main MyOEBB Member Module Link https://myoebb.org/oebb/!pb.main Member and Admin Forms (Appeals, Enrollment, Affidavits, Security Access and more) http://oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/forms.shtml Dependent Eligibility Verification Review Requirements http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/DEVReq.shtml Benefits Comparison and Calculator http://ec2-184-73-239-246.compute-1.amazonaws.com/medicalSelector.aspx Required Notices (COBRA, CHIP, Creditable Coverage and Women's Health and Cancer Rights) http://oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/FedNotices.shtml Member Module Handout 2011-12 http://oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/docs/OpenEnrollment/MyOEBB_OE_Brochure.pdf 2011-12 Plan Rates http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/rates.shtml Plan Contacts (visit carrier sites) http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/Carriers.shtml Linda Tullis Benefits Manager Oregon Educators Benefit Board 1225 Ferry Street SE Salem, OR 97301 Office: (503) 378-3329 Fax: (503) 378-5832 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Mon Aug 15 13:40:27 2011 From: myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (MyOEBB system updates) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:40:27 -0700 Subject: [MyOEBB] MyOEBB Open Enrollment Reports Message-ID: Good Afternoon, As part of the continual improvement to the MyOEBB system we have added a new feature called "Report Mart". You will find this new feature on the left hand navigation of the MyOEBB Admin Module. Report Mart will enable you to run reports that have been designed to assist you in your administrative tasks. Below is a list of reports that may help you through this open enrollment time period. * "Entity Plan Selection", this report is intended to be a tool for you to use during the plan selection period and open enrollment. * "No Medical Dental or Vision", use this report to identify subscribers who's plans have ended either because the Entity did not select that plan this plan year or because OEBB ended the plan based on plan change decisions made by the Oregon Educators Benefit Board. * "Entity Salary Report", this report lists all eligible subscribers and their current salary and future salaries. If a subscriber does not have a salary the subscriber is listed with no salary. * "Subscriber Lock Out", this report will list any subscribers who have an account that is currently locked. * "Entity Subscriber Address", this report lists the residential and mailing address the subscriber has listed in the system. * Please see the attached document for instruction on how to access and navigate through Report Mart. We will be designing new reports and adding them to Report Mart. Please check the link often for new reports. You are welcome to send your suggestions and/or comments about the reports to OEBB.Reports at state.or.us. Mary French Data Benefits Analyst Oregon Educators Benefit Board 1255 Ferry Street SE Salem, OR 97301 Office: (503) 378-3956 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Report Mart Instructions.docx Type: application/octet-stream Size: 900240 bytes Desc: Report Mart Instructions.docx URL: From myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Fri Aug 19 15:15:36 2011 From: myoebb at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (MyOEBB system updates) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:15:36 -0700 Subject: [MyOEBB] Communications Update Message-ID: Dear Business Managers, Superintendents & Benefits Administrators: On Monday, August 22 we will be mailing postcards to all OEBB members currently enrolled in a medical, dental and/or vision plan which will not be available to them in the 2011-12 plan year. You can review the postcard on the ?Entity Resources ? page of our website. For your convenience, here is a direct link to the pdf file: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/docs/OpenEnrollment/2011/TermingPlansPostcard.pdf Some notes about this mailing: * This postcard will not be sent to members whose employment terminates September 30, 2011 or earlier, only to those members with active employment records on October 1, 2011. * Each employee will only receive one postcard, even if they have multiple plans ending (e.g., medical and dental). * The data for this mailing was pulled prior to Open Enrollment, so some members may have already logged in this week and enrolled in a new plan for 2011-12. In that case, the member can disregard the postcard. It is simply meant to be a friendly reminder for those who have not done so yet. Also, in case you haven?t seen them yet, these other items are now available on the OEBB website: On the ?Forms? page - ? Revised New Hire Enrollment Form ? Revised Open Enrollment Change Form ? Revised Midyear Change Form On the member ?Tools & Resources? page - Under ?2011-12 Benefits? ? * Our new online Benefits Comparison and Calculator tool * Dependent Eligibility Requirements ? HSA Information U.S. Bank FAQ's for Members U.S. Bank HSA Fee Schedule ? ODS - Medical Plan 4 FAQ's and additional information on ODS website And further down the page under ?Member Information? we have a new guide for retirees or those planning their retirement. * Retiree Resource Guide We hope you find these items helpful. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email me directly at jackie.cowsill at state.or.us. Have a great Open Enrollment! Jackie Cowsill Communications Coordinator Oregon Educators Benefit Board -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: