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Contentious bill backed by behavioral health providers gets another hearing

A revised version of the bill affecting medical and behavioral care for foster kids and others in the custody of the state has won another hearing after facing major criticisms earlier in the session

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Felisa Hagins, executive director of the Oregon State Council of the Service Employees International Union was among several panelists to challenge the status quo qhen it comes to health care cost. Also pictured (left to right) are Charlotte Flood, CEO, Northwest Primary Care; Jack Friedman, former CEO, Providence Health; Dr. Tracy Muday, executive medical director, Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon; and Sarah Bartelmann, cost programs manager, Oregon Health Authority. Not pictured is Sean Kolmer, Hospital Association of Oregon executive vice president. | NICK BUDNICK/THE LUND REPORT

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Treatment providers say Oregon health officials’ new rule is hurting care

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Oregon senator pushes ‘equal pay for equal care’ for primary care clinics

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Price-fixing claims multiply against Regence BlueCross BlueShield, other Blues insurers

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Salem Health-Regence split turns spotlight on insurance company wealth

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Behavioral Health

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Construction proceeds on 350-bed Washington state psychiatric hospital

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Oregon hospitals house mentally ill for long periods, dashboard shows

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Bills to permit behavioral health treatment by out-of-state providers were sailing, then hit the rocks

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Longtime Oregon Health Authority equity director sues state over termination

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Safety net clinic on Southern Oregon coast to close suddenly

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Oregon Medical Board’s latest anti-discrimination rule sparks advocate’s bias concern

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OHSU, Legacy Health scrap contentious proposed merger

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OHSU's main campus in Portland in September, 2024. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

OHSU leaders mum on how red ink could affect proposed purchase of Legacy

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Oregon bill would mandate health care employers prevent, report workplace violence

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Opinion

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Opinion: OHSU’s acquisition of Legacy Health likely to worsen the state's affordability crisis

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Opinion: OHSU-Legacy merger would improve specialty care for children with heart disease, others

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Caregivers

Parents of disabled children packed a legislative hearing on Feb. 4, 2025 in support of a bill that would allow more to be paid for caring for their kids. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Parents of high-needs children push Oregon to streamline payments for providing care

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Kotek muscles into Providence contract impasse

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Burnout lingers but the ranks of Oregon health care workers are growing

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PeaceHealth nurses in Vancouver win boost in pay but not staffing

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Vancouver nurses eye Oregon’s new hospital staffing law

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PacificSource lays off 29, will largely pull out of Washington

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Decades-old Oregon health care cost-control program will continue — for now

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Health care for 1 in 3 Oregonians in question as GOP mulls cuts in D.C.

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State’s low-income climate benefit takes effect in time for heat wave

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Aging

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Providence's push to hand off hospice, home care in Oregon to Tennessee firm gets closer look

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U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden speaks about reforms to Medicare at the Community for Positive Aging in Portland on Oct. 15, 2024. Wyden made the appearance on the first day of Medicare's open enrollment period, a time when seniors are bombarded with often confusing information. He was joined by Carisa Dickson, a manager in a Multnomah County program that helps seniors with Medicare.

As Medicare enrollment launches for 2025, Wyden sounds alarm

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Daiya Healthcare settles Medicare fraud allegations

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Rural Health

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Paramedic sues Morrow County Health District for $1.5 million over her firing

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Proposed med school in Klamath Falls could help treat rural doctor shortage

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Former Samaritan Health exec claims state contract violations

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Children’s Health

Clockwise from front left: Sophomores Madison Cailteux, Kaden Davis Young, Samuel Stanley, Jack Von Ammon and Pearl Carter participate in cooperative learning during science class at South Eugene High School on Dec. 11, 2023. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

Trio of bills aims to address Oregon's failure to equip kids with needed tools against drugs

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Oregon faces ‘crisis’ in growing number of babies born with syphilis, officials say

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With lawsuits tying up Trump’s gender care order, Oregon hospitals still provide services — so far

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Gender Health

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Oregon GOP lawmakers request federal investigation of Medicaid, gender care

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More women sue Salem pathology lab, alleging false breast cancer diagnoses

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OHSU privatizing fertility services as San Francisco company opens clinic in Portland

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Public Health

Trump’s war on measurement means losing data on drug Use, maternal mortality, climate change and more

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RFK Jr. says he wants to curb measles. His former nonprofit keeps undermining his message.

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Lane County warns of rise in Shigella bacterial infections

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Access & Quality

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PeaceHealth, Lifepoint announce new rehab hospital in Vancouver

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Massive Medicaid cuts floated in Congress face hurdles

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Troubled Bandon-based nonprofit will stay open, preserving care on the Oregon coast

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Drugs & Pharmacies

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Oregon won’t set price caps on prescription drugs — for now

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As pharmacies keep closing, Oregon lawmakers will try again to change how they’re paid

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Rulings in Oregon, Washington may kill national Kroger-Albertsons deal

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Housing & Poverty

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PeaceHealth to refund millions to low-income patients in Washington, but not Oregon

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Oregon hospitals’ reported 'community benefit' grew in 2021

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House passes bill to boost Oregon hospitals’ charity care

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Prison Health

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Consultant vows to ‘zero in’ on Oregon prison care denials in wake of blistering report

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State prison docs waited three years before fixing broken wrist, suit says

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Dean Kienholz in his office at Columbia River Correctional Institution in Portland, Ore. on July 19, 2023. Kienholz is a prisoner who became a certified alcohol and drug counselor while incarcerated. | EMILY GREEN/THE LUND REPORT

A prison pipeline that could help meet Oregon’s behavioral health workforce needs

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Environmental Health

Moss isn’t a likely source of lead exposure for humans. But researchers took samples from it in Portland neighborhoods to see how environmental lead levels vary across the region. | COURTESY/OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

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