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For-Profit Health Plans Draw More Complaints

For-Profit Health Plans Draw More Complaints

Regence fares well among consumers but takes a bath in a national provider survey
July 12, 2010 -- For-profit health plans drew more than their fair share of consumer complaints to the Oregon Insurance Division in 2009, based on a report posted by the division on-line today. Read More >>
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Project Access NOW Seeks Medical Volunteers

Project Access NOW Seeks Medical Volunteers

Providence, Boeing and the Meyer Memorial Trust together have contributed $138,000 to create a new database system
July 7, 2010 -- The mission is to organize charity healthcare into an equitable, cost-effective system. Read More >>
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Retired Doc Fears Burnout for New Recruits

Retired Doc Fears Burnout for New Recruits

Where are the doctors, nurses and medical staff to be found for these 32 million people?
June 16, 2010 -- Perhaps our government expects the medical profession to reorder its established patient-doctor relationship while expanding the present physician workload to accommodate 32 million more people who now lack full care. Read More >>
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Dr. John Evans Assumes Presidency of OMA

Dr. John Evans Assumes Presidency of OMA

April 14, 2010 -- Dr. John Evans III, a Portland-based anesthesiologist, becomes president of the Oregon Medical Association at its annual House of Delegates meeting on April 24. He succeeds Dr. Peter Bernardo, a general surgeon from Salem. Read More >>
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OMA Remains Neutral on National Health Reform

OMA Remains Neutral on National Health Reform

Doctors raise objections about an independent payment board that could diminish their influence
March 31, 2010 – The health reform package signed into law by President Obama doesn’t pass muster with the Oregon Medical Association, which remains critical of the sweeping reform. Read More >>
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Tort Reform Will Raise its Head Next Year

Tort Reform Will Raise its Head Next Year

Oregon Health Policy Board appoints a 15-member medical liability task force
March 10, 2010 – Tort reform is definitely coming back to the 2011 Oregon Legislature. That message came loud and clear when the Oregon Health Policy Board appointed a 15-member task force on March 9. Read More >>
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Psychologists Win Prescribing Rights

Psychologists Win Prescribing Rights

Not surprisingly, closing one of the Oregon legislature’s most longstanding “scope-of-practice” issues still feels unresolved
February 25, 2010 -- Beginning in July of next year, licensed psychologists may gain the right to prescribe certain mental health drugs under a bill that passed the Oregon House and Senate this week. Everything hinges on whether Gov. Kulongoski decides to veto the measure. Read More >>
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Monitoring Program to Combine Health Professions

Monitoring Program to Combine Health Professions

The controversial rehabilitation programs that came under fire for protecting their own will be replaced by one consolidated program
January 28, 2010 -- Medical licensing boards in Oregon will no longer operate their own substance abuse and mental health monitoring programs beginning in July. Read More >>
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It’s Time We Face the Primary Care Shortage

It’s Time We Face the Primary Care Shortage

From reimbursement rates to public policy and medical schools, a UCLA professor emeritus offers a step-by-step solution
January 6, 2010 -- Fifty years ago over half of medical school graduates became general practitioners, general internists or general pediatricians. Today subspecialty training dominates by a ratio of almost 7:1. Read More >>
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AMA to Maintain Medical Billing Code Monopoly

AMA to Maintain Medical Billing Code Monopoly

Critics contend protecting this proprietary billing codes doctors use to submit insurance claims accounts for the AMA's support of health reform
January 6, 2010 -- As Democrats tout the American Medical Association's endorsement of their health care overhaul, critics are pointing to their studious sidestepping of a little-known monopoly that sends millions into the trade group's coffers each year, saying it's no surprise the Democrats were able to gain the AMA's support. Read More >>
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