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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Business Managers, Superintendents, and Benefits Administrators:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Template letters for the federally required “Exchange Notice” are now available on the Healthcare Reform page of the OEBB website:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/Pages/HealthCareReform.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/Pages/HealthCareReform.aspx</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Below are the steps you will need to take and instructions on how to use these templates in order to comply with the federal requirement.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Determine which of your employees have already received this notification from OEBB.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">On August 26, 2013, OEBB mailed a notice to all members on your August invoice as well as any new members added to the MyOEBB system between the time the August invoice was generated and the time
the mailing data was pulled from the system on August 15. If your entity added any employees to the system during this time, you will find a report in your document management area of the MyOEBB system titled “Exchange Mailing not on August Invoice”. These
members were also notified by OEBB along with those listed on your August invoice. If you do not have a report with this title in your document management area, then the August invoice is the complete listing of your members who received the OEBB notification.
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(Samples of the notification letters OEBB mailed are available on the Healthcare Reform page of the OEBB website:
<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/Pages/HealthCareReform.aspx">http://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/Pages/HealthCareReform.aspx</a>.)</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No later than September 30, 2013, use the “Benefits Eligible Aug. 15 – Sept. 30” template to notify any employees who were not notified by OEBB as described
above, but who gain eligibility for benefits prior to October 1, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The “Benefits Eligible Aug. 15 – Sept. 30” template can be found on the Healthcare Reform page of the OEBB website, but we have also provided a direct link here for your convenience:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/docs/2013/HCR/TEMPLATE-ExchangeNotice-Aug15-Sept30.doc">www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/docs/2013/HCR/TEMPLATE-ExchangeNotice-Aug15-Sept30.doc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">No later than September 30, 2013, use the “Not Eligible For Benefits” template to notify all individuals who are active employees of your educational entity
as of September 30, 2013, but who are not eligible for benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If an individual’s employment ends on or before September 30, 2013, you are not required to send them this notification; however, there’s no harm in doing so.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The “Not Eligible For Benefits” template can be found on the Healthcare Reform page of the OEBB website, but we have also provided a direct link here for your convenience:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/docs/2013/HCR/TEMPLATE-ExchangeNotice-NotBenefitsEligible.doc">www.oregon.gov/oha/OEBB/docs/2013/HCR/TEMPLATE-ExchangeNotice-NotBenefitsEligible.doc</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Beginning October 1, 2013, notify each new employee within their first 14 days of employment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Later this month, additional templates will be posted to the Healthcare Reform page of the OEBB website which can be used to notify employees hired on or after October 1, 2013. This notification
may be mailed to the employee’s home, or it may be hand-delivered directly to the employee. It may also be included in a new-hire information packet, but that packet must be hand-delivered directly to the employee or delivered via first-class USPS mail.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Alternate delivery methods, such as making the notification available online, making multiple copies of the notification generally available in a common area, or providing a link to the notification
rather than providing the full notice, will <b>NOT</b> comply with the federal requirement.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Employers must ensure that each new employee receives the proper notification within their first 14 days of employment either by mailing the notice first-class USPS mail or hand-delivering it directly
to the employee. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you have further questions about this federal “Exchange Notice” requirement, please send an email to OEBB Member Services at:
<a href="mailto:oebb.benefits@state.or.us">oebb.benefits@state.or.us</a>. Staff will research your question and provide the answer by replying to your email, as well as compile the questions and answers into an FAQ section of the Healthcare Reform page on the
OEBB website. This method will help all our educational entities learn from each other’s questions.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank you for your patience and partnership as we work to provide you with the most helpful, clear, and easy-to-use tools during this exceptionally busy time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#003399">Jackie Cowsill</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#003399"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Communications Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Oregon Educators Benefit Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Voice: 503-378-5353<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#003399">Fax: 503-378-5832<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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