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PEBB staff updates master plan documents; board approves consolidations and clarifications

2739538 · March 21, 2025
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Summary

PEBB staff proposed multiple clarifications, coverage enhancements and clerical cleanups to the master plan documents (MPDs) for plan year 2026; the board approved the changes and authorized final formatting and vendor review.

The Public Employees Benefits Program Board on March 25 approved staff recommendations to update and clarify the master plan documents (MPDs) that govern PEBB medical, pharmacy and related benefits for plan year 2026.

Quality Control Officer Leslie Biddleston reviewed a package of edits that included three explicit benefit enhancements, numerous clarifications to existing covered services, and broad clerical and formatting changes intended to reduce internal inconsistency across MPDs. “One of the things that we will be updating after this meeting, of course, is the rates that go along with the services because we just approved the rates just a minute ago,” Biddleston said.

Key changes: The packet…

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