Board members

Member duties

Members have five key duties:

• Establish three advisory committees: health care stakeholders, data issues, and primary care.
• Identify the types and sources of data needed to annually calculate health care spending and cost growth — and establish the health care cost growth benchmark.
• Explore issues and develop recommendations to lower health care costs.
• Help develop reports to the Legislature.
• Consider and integrate public input into board recommendations as appropriate.

Board members

To help the Cost Board consider all the sides of health care spending, some board members represent groups that pay for health care, like Washington patients (consumers), local governments, and employers. Others are experts in health care economics and financing. The members and areas they represent are as follows:

• Ryan Moran, chair, director of Health Care Authority
• Jane Beyer, Office of the Insurance Commissioner
• Emily Brice, consumers
• Eileen Cody, consumers
• Lois C. Cook, small business
• Ken Gardner, Taft-Hartley (union) health benefit plans
• Hart Hodges, health care economics expert
• Jodi Joyce, non-voting member of stakeholder committee
• Ingrid Ulrey, Health Benefit Exchange
• Kim Wallace, Department of Labor and Industries

Join the board

The Cost Board is seeking new members to fill several vacancies. If you’re interested in health care economics and financing, we encourage you to apply through the Governor’s Office.

Who we’re looking for

We invite you to apply if you have a background in health care or related fields such as:

• Health data analytics,
• Clinical practice,
• Insurance carriers,
• Health care providers, or
• Public service with an interest in health care.

We hope to build a diverse candidate pool that reflects Washington’s communities, including varied professional experiences, lived experiences, and geographic representation — particularly central and eastern Washington.

More about the openings

The Cost Board has hybrid meetings (virtual and in person) about seven times a year. Meetings typically run from 2–5 p.m.

These are volunteer positions; members are not financially compensated. However, your work will directly impact health care transparency, affordability, and accountability in Washington state.

Submit your application through the Office of the Governor’s portal. The Governor will review and appoint the new board members.

If you have questions, please contact the Cost Board team. We also encourage you to share this opportunity with colleagues who may be interested.