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Oregon Health Plan Members Still Puffing Away

But, at the same time, Oregon is known nationally for helping people quit the habit

April 12, 2012 -- Oregon has one of the strongest programs in the country to help people stop puffing on cigarettes, yet its preponderance of low-income smokers remains high. A survey conducted last year found that 31 percent of people on the Oregon Health Plan are smokers, roughly 201,000 Oregonians, compared to a 15 percent rate among the general public. Read More >>

Transformation Bill Passes the House

It is expected to be signed into law within days, allowing coordinated care organizations to be created

February 25, 2012—The bill allowing for the overhaul of the Oregon Health Plan’s delivery system passed the House with an overwhelmingly bipartisan 53-7 vote today, after being stalled for days because it became a part of end-of-session political negotiating and bargaining. Read More >>

After Slipping Through the Cracks, Beaverton Man to Receive Lifesaving Surgery

Mike Trethewey applied for assistance for dozens of organizations before being accepted for cancer treatment at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle

February 25, 2012 – Mike Trethewey is preparing to travel from Beaverton to Seattle for a life-saving surgery he needed three months ago. Read More >>

Author Believes Clinically Aware Benefit Plans Are Advantageous

OPINION -- February 22, 2012 -- Even before the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was written, coverage designed to avoid sick patients was becoming an unacceptable goal. A goal that most commercial benefit plans and claim processing systems use, assuming predominantly healthy populations, and preventing those that need the coverage the most from being adequately addressed. Read More >>

Special Legislative Hearing Focuses on Business Plan for Health Transformation

Legislators continue to have questions about details, and exactly how coordinated care organizations will work

December 22, 2011—The business plan that will lead to the formation of coordinated care organizations (CCO) and transform the healthcare delivery system in Oregon took front and center when legislators gathered in Salem for an all-day meeting on Tuesday. Read More >>

Public Health See Opportunities in Oregon Health Plan Reform

Public health officials think public public health departments should be part of a coordinated care organization's governing board

October 27, 2011—As the final meeting of the governor-appointed workgroups approaches in late November to determine the criteria for coordinated care organizations, public health officials are questioning how they’ll fit into the new healthcare delivery model for the Oregon Health Plan. Read More >>

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