The California Health Benefit Exchange recognizes that its employees are its most important asset.  Exchange employees are the vital link that ensure its vision, mission and values are fully realized.  To this end, the Exchange strives to ensure that its workforce is drawn from the broadest segments of society and reflects the diversity of California so that the Exchange is poised to meet the present and future health care needs of the entire state’s population.

The California Health Benefit Exchange has partnered with Wilcox, Miller and Nelson to recruit the following positions:

Director, Public Relations and Communications

Contact email: HBEXDCPR@wilcoxcareer.com

Chief Actuary/Director of Research

Contact email: HBEXCADR@wilcoxcareer.com

Director, Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Exchange

Contact email: HBEXDSHOP@wilcoxcareer.com

Director, Small Group Sales and Marketing

Contact email: HBEXDSGSM@wilcoxcareer.com

Director, Health Plan Contracting

Contact email: HBEXDHPC@wilcoxcareer.com

Director, Individual Sales and Marketing

Contact email: HBEXDIMS@wilcoxcareer.com

 

Additional Recruitments: 

IT Project Director, California Healthcare Enrollment, Eligibility, and Retention System (CalHEERS)

Executive Assistant

To be considered for these career opportunities, please submit a cover letter, your resumé (which should include years and months of positions held, as well as size of staff and budgets managed), a statement of qualifications (no more than three pages in length), and a list of six work-related references and current salary to Jobs@hbex.ca.gov, or: 

Renee Cannon
California Health Benefit Exchange
2535 Capitol Oaks Drive, Suite 120
Sacramento, CA  95833

Please indicate on the outside of the envelope the position for which you are applying.

Resumés will be screened in relation to the criteria outlined.  Candidates deemed to have the most relevant background will be invited to interview with a selection committee.

 

Background on the Exchange

Starting in 2014, the California Health Benefit Exchange will make it easier for individuals and small businesses to compare plans and buy health insurance on the private market. The Exchange will enhance competition and provide the same advantages available to large employer groups by organizing the private insurance market, including a more stable risk pool, greater purchasing power, more competition among insurers and detailed information regarding about the price, quality and service of health coverage.

The Exchange will support consumer choice by making comprehensive information about health plans available in an objective, easy-to-understand format, including:

·        A website that provides standardized comparison information on qualified health plan plans benefits/options;

·        A calculator for applicants to compare costs across plan options;

·        A web-based eligibility portal to help link individuals to health cover options available to them;

·        A toll-free consumer assistance hotline 

Eligibility

Individuals and small employers meeting federal citizenship requirements may enroll in the exchange.  Federal health care reform makes tax credits and subsidies available in 2014 to Californians with incomes between 133 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (in 2010, approximately $29,000 to $88,000 for a family of four). The Exchange will ensure that Californians eligible for federally-authorized tax credits and subsidies get those benefits.  Small employers with less than 100 employees may also purchase coverage through the exchange.

Costs

The federal government awarded California $1 million to fund preliminary planning efforts related to the development of an exchange and a $39 million Level I grant for implementation.  After 2014, the Exchange must be self-supporting from fees paid by health plans and insurers participating in the Exchange.

Voluntary Health Plan and Insurer Participation

Health insurance products offered through the Exchange must be available in the same form to consumers purchasing coverage outside the Exchange. All health plans and insurers participating in the Exchange must offer all Exchange plans at the federally designated bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels. Catastrophic plans will only be available through health plans and insurers participating in the Exchange. The catastrophic plans will be available both inside and outside the Exchange from these health plans and insurers.

The Exchange does not change how existing state health care coverage programs are administered.  Medi-Cal and the Healthy Families Program will continue to be administered by the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board (MRMIB), respectively. The Exchange will screen for and enroll individuals in Medi-Cal or the Healthy Families Program if they are eligible for those programs. The federal law requires state exchanges to perform this function. The Exchange will coordinate with DHCS, the MRMIB, and California counties to ensure that individuals are seamlessly transitioned between coverage programs if their eligibility changes.

The Exchange is an independent public entity within state government with a five-member board appointed by the Governor and the Legislature. Two members are appointed by the Governor; one by the Senate Rules Committee; and one by the Speaker of the Assembly. The Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency or another designee will serve as an ex-officio voting member of the Board. Appointed members will serve four-year terms.

Members of the board or of the staff of the Exchange are subject to strict conflict-of-interest provisions. They may not be employed by, a consultant to, a member of the board of directors of, affiliated with, or otherwise a representative of, a carrier or other insurer, an agent or broker, a health care provider, or a health care facility or health clinic.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Salaries for these positions are negotiable and will be dependent on the qualifications of the successful candidates. As an employee of the State of California, these positions also receives a comprehensive benefit plan including, but not limited to:

Retirement

California Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) 2% @ 55 Plan; employee contribution required.

Insurance

Health, dental, vision, and life insurance programs provided.  Employee contributions may be required depending on programs selected.

Leave Allowance

- Vacation and sick leave benefits provided

- 13 holidays observed. Additional information about benefits available can be viewed at http://www.dpa.ca.gov/benefits/index.htm