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Finance Technical Advisory Committee
The Finance Technical Advisory Committee (FTAC) supports the Universal Health Care Commission. FTAC provides guidance and options for the Commission’s development of a universal health care system, supported by unified financing in Washington state.
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What’s the role of FTAC?
FTAC helps with the significant planning, analyses, and evaluation needed for the transition to and implementation of a unified health care financing system. As an advisory committee, FTAC’s role is to:
- Serve at the direction of the Universal Health Care Commission.
- Consider interdependencies between necessary components of a unified financing system.
- Provide options-based guidance to the Commission while considering the impact of that guidance on patients and consumers.
- Provide options and guidance related to entities responsible for the implementation and administration of a proposed unified health care financing system.
Read the FTAC charter to learn more.
Committee members
- Christine Eibner, health care financing expert
- Roger Gantz, health care financing expert
- Sarah Huling, health care financing expert
- Esther Lucero, health care financing expert
- Pam MacEwan, consumer representative
- Matthew Morrissey, Department of Revenue representative
- Robert Murray, health care financing expert
- Hiroshi Nakano, health care financing expert
- Eddy Rauser, Office of Financial Management representative
- Kai Yeung, health care financing expert
Public comment
Members of the public are welcome and encouraged to share their input at FTAC meetings. All feedback — written and verbal — is shared with committee and Commission members. Please review what to expect when providing public comments.
Share your input
There are two ways to share input:
- Speak during the designated public comment time at FTAC meetings. Sign up to provide public comment by 5 p.m. the day before the meeting occurs. We’ll invite those who signed up before the meeting to speak in the order they signed up, followed by those who didn’t sign up, if there’s time remaining.
- Submit written comments at any time. We’ll include comments received at least two weeks before a meeting in the upcoming meeting’s materials. If you submit your comments less than two weeks before a meeting, we’ll include them in the following meeting’s materials.
Upcoming meetings and materials
| Date and time | Location |
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| Thursday, September 24 2–4:30 p.m. |
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| Thursday, November 12 2–4:30 p.m. |
Meetings held virtually
Committee meetings are held virtually through Zoom. Committee members and the public will attend the meetings virtually.
Accommodation requests
You can request live close captioning, or Communication Access Real-time Transcription (CART) services, for our meetings. Scheduling CART services takes up to three weeks, so please send a request by email as soon as possible.
For other language access accommodations, call 1-855-682-0787 (or Telecommunications Relay Service 711).
All meetings sponsored by the Health Care Authority (HCA) meet Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements. Read HCA’s nondiscrimination statement for more details.
Past meetings
- 2026
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Date Location Topics Materials August 6, 2026 This meeting was held on Teams. - Update from the most recent meeting of the Universal Health Care Commission
- How to pay providers in a universal system
- How to fund a universal system
May 14, 2026 This meeting was held on Teams. - Report from the latest meeting of the Universal Health Care Commission
- Ways to pay providers in a universal system
- Options for financing analysis
March 19, 2026 This meeting was held on Teams. - Work plan and status updates about FTAC and the Universal Health Care Commission
- Proposed transitional solution related to primary care
- Latest proposals for provider reimbursement in a universal system
January 15, 2026 This meeting was held on Zoom.
- Update about the Universal Health Care Commission’s most recent meeting and its plans for 2026
- Guidelines for how providers would be paid in a universal health care system
- Ideas for future analysis that could help shape a universal system
- 2025
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Date Location Topics Materials November 6, 2025 This meeting was held on Zoom. - Learn about reference-based pricing in Washington
- Craft the guiding principles for how to pay and bring in providers and hospitals in a universal system
- Look ahead to the 2026 work plan
September 18, 2025 This meeting was held on Zoom. - Update on Universal Health Care Commission
- First discussion on provider reimbursement and participation
July 17, 2025 This meeting was held on Zoom. - Proposals for eligibility and benefits & services design
- How to pay providers in a universal system
- Priorities for interim solutions
May 15, 2025 This meeting was held on Zoom. - Feedback from the Universal Health Care Commission and discussion of work plan topics:
- Benefit design
- Provider reimbursement
- Cost containment
- Update from the Health Care Cost Transparency Board
March 13, 2025 This meeting was held on Zoom. - Update on work plans for the Universal Health Care Commission and FTAC
- Overview of cost-modeling report
- Discussion of ways to control health care costs
January 16, 2025 This meeting was held on Zoom.
- 2025 goals and work plan
- The Health Care Cost Transparency Board's benchmark report
- More ways to contain health care costs
- 2024
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Date Location Materials November 14, 2024 This meeting was held on Zoom. September 10, 2024 This meeting was held on Zoom. July 11, 2024 This meeting was held on Zoom. May 9, 2024 This meeting was held on Zoom. March 14, 2024 This meeting was held on Zoom. January 12, 2024 This meeting was held on Zoom. - 2023
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Date Location Materials November 9, 2023 This meeting was held on Zoom. September 14, 2023 This meeting was held on Zoom. July 13, 2023 This meeting was held on Zoom. May 11, 2023 This meeting was held on Zoom. March 9, 2023 This meeting was held on Zoom. January 12, 2023 This meeting was held on Zoom.