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Oregon hospitals provided $1.9 billion in community benefits in fiscal 2015, a 1 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new Community Benefit Report from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA).

Quest Diagnostics, a Fortune 500 company with headquarters in Madison, New Jersey, is purchasing PeaceHealth Labs for an undisclosed amount of money. Confidential sources revealed to The Lund Report that a Quest facility is already being wired for 30 computers likely in Springfield, which will serve as its command center.

CCOs vary in efforts to improve care, hold down costs, and shift to patient-centered primary care model

Data analysis also shows discrepancies by race and gender, with black CCO members visiting the emergency department more often than members of other races, and women visiting more often than men

With all the consternation about the future of the Affordable Care Act by the Trump administration, how will the commercial insurance marketplace be impacted? That’s the topic of the March 22 breakfast forum which will be held at the Multnomah Athletic Club. Breakfast will be served at 7 a.m., followed by a panel discussion.

A change in insurance law could allow health insurers to move in and out of a geographic coverage area at the discretion of the insurance commissioner, rolling back a statutory five-year bar on re-entering an area after an insurance company has pulled out.

The Oregon Nurses Association would like a change in the law governing for-profit medical practices to allow nurse practitioners to own half or all of such clinics, a right currently limited to physicians.