Regional Roll-Out (RRO) Leader/Lead Organization Information

   Name: The Oregon Coalition of
   Health Care Purchasers (OCHCP)
    Link: www.ochcp.org

Description:  The Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers (OCHCP) is a non-profit organization that brings together Oregon and SW Washington’s public and private sector health care employers, unions, and association purchasers to create collaborative solutions to escalating health care costs. Presently representing about 420,000 commercially insured Oregonians, the OCHCP mission is to improve purchasers’ ability to contract for high quality and cost-effective health care for their employees or members through support, education, tools, quality improvement initiatives, and advocacy.

Contact:  Barbara Prowe
Title: Executive Director, OCHCP
Address: PMB 215; 6327-C SW Capitol Hwy.; Portland, OR  97239-1937
Phone:   503-972-1351
Email:  barbara.prowe@ochcp.org

Contact: Elizabeth Wright, Intel Corporation
Title:  Health Benefits Design 
Address: NE 25th Ave, Mailstop: JF3-234   Hillsboro, OR 97124
Phone: 503-712-4198
Email:  elizabeth.b.wright@intel.com

Why did your organization decide to apply to become a Leapfrog Regional Roll-Out leader?
The largest employer in Oregon, the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB), included quality measures in their RFP for health benefits for 2006. Leapfrog is one of the requirements for hospitals; however, a number of those hospitals fall outside the Portland MSA that has been targeted to date. Corrie Zenzola has done an outstanding job in getting hospital involvement in the Portland area; however, there is pushback from hospitals in locations where Intel does not have a substantial employee base. Consequently, we at the OCHCP believe that through the involvement of multiple purchasers there will be more of an incentive for hospitals outside the Portland metro area to participate in Leapfrog reporting.

Our goals are to initially focus on the hospitals along the I-5 corridor in Salem, Eugene and Medford where we have a substantial number of employees and to support Corrie’s efforts in the Portland MSA. Intel brings the large company name and OCHCP brings on-the-ground support with knowledge of the hospital systems.

In your view, what kind of impact has Leapfrog had on your market thus far?
Leapfrog participation in Oregon is fairly new (two years) and there are 15 hospitals in the Portland metro area reporting Leapfrog data. This has given us a benchmark for comparison in a very competitive market and has set the stage for hospitals outside the Portland metro area to participate.

Regional Roll-Out Market Information

Geographic coverage: Oregon

Population: State population ~3.3 milliom

Number of employer/coalition lives in RRO area: 420,000

List of area’s largest employers (by employee size):

Partial list based on Portland Business Journal 2006 Book of Lists:
Public Employee Benefits Board (PEBB), Salem - 45,000
URS Corp, Portland - 26,400; 130 locally
CH2M Hill IDC, Portland - 15,900; 1,009 locally
Precision Castparts Corp, Portland - 15,700
Intel - 87,100; 15,500 locally
Providence Health Systems  - 13,753
Jeld-Wen, Redmond - 12,000
Precision Castparts Corp - 11,900
Colson & Colson/Holiday Retirement Corp, Salem - 10,000
TOC Management Services - 10,000
City County Insurance Services, Salem - 9,378
NACCO Materials Handling - 7,500
Kaiser Permanente - 7,433
Les Schwab Tire Company, Prineville - 7,000
Bear Creek (Harry & David), Medford - 6,000
Monaco Coach - 5,934
Nike, Beaverton - 24,667; 5742 locally
Fred Meyer Stores - 5,300
Lithia Motors - 5,130
Weyerhauser - 5,000
Hewlett Packard - 151,000; 3,500 locally
Roseburg Forest Products, Roseburg - 3,300
Bi-Mart Corp, Eugene - 3,026
A-dec, Newberg - 926

Local industry breakdown

Construction - 5.10%
Education & Health Services - 12.10%
Financial Activities - 6.20%
Government - 17%
Manufacturing - 12.50%
Professional & Business Services - 11.10%
Transportation, Warehousing & Utilities - 3.50%
Wholesale & Retail Trade - 16.40% 

- 2004 Year end data

Hospital characteristics:
26 Targeted Hospitals

Insurer characteristics (local health plans):
Aetna
CIGNA
Clear Choice
Great-West
Kaiser
Lifewise
ODS
PacificSource
Providence
Regence
Samaritan
United

State/Local government activities:
Public Employee Benefit Board (PEBB) has required hospitals providing services to PEBB employees to participate in Leapfrog.

The State has a quality indicator website: http://egov.oregon.gov/DAS/OHPPR/HQ/index.shtml