Committees of the Board

• Finance Committee
  The Finance Committee is charged with reviewing the annual budget and monitoring OAG financial performance. The Finance Committee makes policy recommendations to the Board of Directors on income pooling, physician compensation, structure, investments and other financial matters. Working jointly with the Pensions and Benefits Committee, the Finance Committee recommends to the Board of Directors health, insurance providers and benefit structure for physicians and staff.
• Pension Committee
  The Pension and Benefits Committee is charged with oversight responsibility in matters involving the OAG Pension Plan and employee Health and Welfare Benefits.
• Hospital Affairs Committee
  The Hospital Affairs Committee exists as a forum for anesthesia department chairpersons to share site-specific data that might impact OAG decisions on matters such as manpower assessment, standardization of anesthetic records, cost-savings, etc. The Hospital Affairs Committee acts as a liaison between OAG and anesthesia departments, assisting in the development of stronger communication links with physicians. Additionally, the Hospital Affairs Committee serves as OAG's recruitment task force.
• Credentials Committee
  The Credentials Committee reviews the credentials of all new applicants and those physicians applying to be recredentialed in order to determine if their credentials are in order and meet the OAG credentialing criteria. The Credentials Committee makes recommendations to the Board of Directors on all credentialing matters and annually reviews Credentials Policies and Procedures to ensure that it is relevant to reflects OAG and external reviewing organizations' standards.
• Risk Management Committee
  The Risk Management Committee is charged with establishing guidelines, insuring compliance, making recommendations and establishing policies and procedures for the safe and effective practice of anesthesia.
• Pain Medicine Committee
  The Pain Medicine Committee is charged with developing policies for recommendation to the Board of Directors regarding pain medicine billing and for discussion of treatment protocols. Additionally, the Pain Medicine Committee serves as the peer review committee for pain medicine issues as protected under ORS 41.675
• Technology Committee
  The Technology Committee is charged with exploring ways to move OAG to a reasonable point of electronic communication efficiency and effectiveness. The Committee will work to make recommendations to the Board of Directors on how OAG could take advantage of technology available through the use of the Internet and other technologies.
• Billing Compliance Committee
  The Billing Compliance Committee is charged with assuring that, to the best of our ability, OAG physicians and all its employees are in compliance with relevant laws and regulations concerning medical coding and billing.