The Lund Report

PeaceHealth Beats out Providence for SW Washington Hospital

The merger will be completed within the next 3-12 months following a due diligence process.

March 19, 2010 – Call it a war between the two most powerful Catholic healthcare systems in the Pacific Northwest. As it turned out, Providence Health System found itself on the losing side.

Smokefree Workplace Law No Effect on Lottery

But advocates will have trouble blaming smoking ban for budget shortfalls

March 17, 2010 -- A recent poll commissioned by Northwest Health Foundation brings further doubt to the contention that smoking bans in bars are responsible for reduced lottery funds. Read More >>

Sen. Bates Remembers Friend and Colleague Ben Westlund

March 17, 2010 -- I would like say a few words about some of Ben Westlund’s accomplishments as a Statesman. What I really want to dwell on is the man that I came to know over the last ten years. Read More >>

Health Insurers Increase Profits 32 Percent

Whether Oregon health insurers were profitable or not last year largely depended on the stock market

March 17, 2010 -- Investment gains for Oregon’s eight largest health insurers were about the only thing keeping consumers’ premiums from climbing even higher this year. Read More >>

ODS Health Plan Loses $38 million on OEBB Contract

The health insurer recouped that loss after receiving $20 million from its re-insurer and an $18 million loan from OEA Choice Welfare Benefit Trust.

March 17, 2010 -- ODS Health Plan, the major insurer for the state’s 41,844 school teachers and their 61,023 dependents, is bleeding red ink. Read More >>

Top 10 Highest Paid Oregon Health Insurance Executives

Regence CEO takes a 40 percent pay cut while Clear One Health Plan executives saw their salaries soar last year

March 17, 2010 -- Many of Oregon’s health insurance executives took home lower paychecks last year, and Mark Ganz, CEO of Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, took the biggest hit. Read More >>

Hennrich Joins Educators Board

March 17, 2010 -- Mary Lou Hennrich, executive director of the Community Health Partnership, has been appointed to the Oregon Educators Benefit Board by Governor Kulongoski. Read More >>

Intent on Transformation

Public purchasers are positioned to lead, having a hold on 33 percent of the insurance market

March 10, 2010 -- As the largest purchaser of healthcare -- next to Medicare – public purchasers are positioned to transform the delivery system under the leadership of Barney Speight. Read More >>

Eight Tanning Bed Owners that Didn’t Pay Their Fees

Proposed legislation in 2011 could strengthen regulation, increase fees

March 10, 2010 -- State regulators that oversee tanning salons plan to ask the Oregon legislature next year to increase fees and enhance their enforcement tools. Read More >>

Amanda Fritz Helps Homeless Women with Health Needs

The city commissioner’s office is planning health-oriented workshops during May to educate homeless women

March 10, 2010 -- Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s office is planning a series of health-oriented workshops for homeless women that will give an unprecedented focus on their health. Read More >>

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