From oebbbusman at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Mon Oct 3 15:05:56 2011 From: oebbbusman at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (Business Managers-OEBB) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:05:56 -0700 Subject: [OEBBBUSMAN] Post-Open Enrollment Mailings Message-ID: Dear Business Managers, Superintendents and Benefits Administrators: Please accept my apologies for not getting this message to you sooner. Our goal is to provide at least one week's notice before we send communications out to your employees so you will have an opportunity to ask questions and prepare to assist them with questions or concerns. That being said ... This message is to inform you of two recent mailings: 1) Post-Open Enrollment Benefits Statements were mailed to members in stages last week. This mailing included a cover letter containing links to federally required notices as well as the member's personalized Benefits Statement. Members who selected the "E-mail" option in the MyOEBB member module during Open Enrollment should have received an e-mail with two attachments (the cover letter and their benefits statement) the weekend of October 1st. For those who elected the "USPS" option, or did not indicate a preference on how they wished to receive information during Open Enrollment, hard copies were mailed in batches last week with the final batch going in the mail Friday, Sept. 30th. Please note that the information on the USPS Benefit Statements contains the last enrollment selections that were made during the open enrollment period. These statements do not include any changes that were made by the educational entity once the open enrollment period ended. The information on the E-mail Benefit Statements contains the last enrollment selections as of September 30th. A copy of the cover letter for this mailing can be found online at: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/entity/docs/Post-OE_CoverLtr2011.pdf 2) Letters notifying members flagged as having a 12-month waiting period on their and/or their dependents' dental and/or vision plan(s) are being mailed via USPS today. Please note that these letters were generated using data in the MyOEBB system as of Monday, September 26th. Changes made after the September 26th data pull will not be reflected. A template copy of this letter can be found online at: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/entity/docs/12-moWaitLtr2011.pdf Links to both of these letters can also be found on the Educational Entities Resources page of the OEBB website http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/entity/eeResources.shtml under the heading "2011-12 Benefits - Quick Links". If you have any questions about these or any OEBB communications, please contact OEBB Member Services by phone at 888-469-6322, or by e-mail at oebb.benefits at state.or.us. Thank you, Jackie Cowsill Communications Coordinator Oregon Educators Benefit Board -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From oebbbusman at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Tue Oct 11 08:47:53 2011 From: oebbbusman at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (Business Managers-OEBB) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:47:53 -0700 Subject: [OEBBBUSMAN] First meeting of OEBB's new Benefits Information Exchange (BIE) group Message-ID: Dear Business Managers, Premium Contacts and Benefits Administrators: OEBB will be holding the first meeting of the Benefits Information Exchange (BIE) group on Tuesday, October 11, at 2:00 p.m. in the OEBB/PEBB Board Room (1225 Ferry Street SE, Salem, OR 97301). All interested entity representatives (business managers, benefit representatives, payroll staff, IT staff, etc.) are welcome to attend either in person or via video stream. Those watching the video stream can contribute to the conversation by e-mail or phone. Link to video stream: http://benefitboards.das.state.or.us/public_folder.html?folder=22 E-mail: oebb.bie at state.or.us Phone: (888) 422-7117 Participant Code: 584090 The conference line does have a limited capacity, so we ask that participants join us via the video stream and only call in when they have something to share with the group, or have a specific question rather than calling in for the entire meeting. We hope this format facilitates open dialogue without requiring people to travel long distances to attend in person. It may evolve over time as we learn what works best. We appreciate your patience as we try this for the first time. Your feedback and suggestions are always welcome. The agenda for this meeting is available at this link: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/docs/BIE/2011/BIEagenda101111.pdf We hope you'll be able to join us. Thank you, Jackie Cowsill Communications Coordinator Oregon Educators Benefit Board Voice: (503) 378-5353 Fax: (503) 378-5832 From oebbbusman at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Tue Oct 11 13:48:34 2011 From: oebbbusman at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (Business Managers-OEBB) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:48:34 -0700 Subject: [OEBBBUSMAN] Reminder: Join the OEBB Benefits Information Exchange live via webstream Message-ID: Dear Business Managers, Premium Contacts and Benefits Administrators: OEBB will hold the first meeting of the Benefits Information Exchange (BIE) at 2:00pm this afternoon. All interested entity representatives (business managers, benefit representatives, payroll staff, IT staff, etc.) are welcome to attend either in person or via video stream. Those watching the video stream can contribute to the conversation by e-mail or phone. Link to video stream: http://benefitboards.das.state.or.us/public_folder.html?folder=22 (when we start streaming the meeting you will see a link you can click to "watch") E-mail: oebb.bie at state.or.us (will be monitored throughout the meeting and incoming messages read to the group) Phone: (888) 422-7117 Participant Code: 584090 The conference line does have a limited capacity, so we ask that participants join us via the video stream and only call in when they have something to share with the group, or have a specific question rather than calling in for the entire meeting. The agenda for this meeting is available at this link: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/docs/BIE/2011/BIEagenda101111.pdf Handouts related to the meeting are available at this link: http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/docs/BIE/2011/BIEhandouts101111.pdf We hope this format facilitates open dialogue without requiring people to travel long distances to attend in person. It may evolve over time as we learn what works best. 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