Defining the Essential Health Benefit

A new brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Health Affairs discusses the policy issues around the Essential Health Benefit benchmark flexibility for states and how that flexibility can be used to provide a benefit package that will be both affordable and provide meaningful coverage to uninsured or underinsured Americans. You can read the entire brief here.

The Governor established Oregon’s Essential Health Benefit Work Group, and you can follow their progress at this link. The EHB Work Group is chartered by both the Oregon Health Policy Board and the Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Board. These Boards will meet jointly during the summer to hear the recommendations from the EHB Work Group.