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However, the same rankings showed that physicians didn’t make it into the top ten list when the figures were reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Insurance Coverage, Population Aging, and Economic Growth Are Main Drivers of Projected Future Health Spending Increases.

The state plans to adopt an uneasy compromise that will carve out the pregnancy benefit package for women that will be delivered outside of the coordinated care organization program. Finding a permanent fix for such care by CCOs may take further legislation and will likely be an issue in the 2015 session.

A task force created by the Oregon Health Evidence Review Commission will determine whether Oregon Health Plan patients can receive chiropractic spinal manipulation not just drug free treatments.

The remaining state functions of the insurance exchange, much of which has already been handed off to the federal government for 2015, could be housed in the insurance division or the health authority for plan year 2016. The board voted Thursday to retain a limited role for Oregon as a state-based marketplace beyond next year.