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Mental health practitioners insist that Moda Health is holding up their claim payments, at times for up to 90 days, to make sure people haven’t canceled their insurance policy. If that’s true, Moda would be in violation of the state’s prompt payment law requiring insurers to pay claims within 30 days.

Q Corp’s Cost of Care methodology has progressed from a pilot to national study, revealing Oregon’s resource use for healthcare services is low but has some of the highest prices – 17 percentage above average - compared to four other states. Q Corp is now working on Cost of Care for the Medicare Fee For Service populations, with the Medicaid segment soon to follow.

The Senate Democrats unveiled their 2017 agenda, and healthcare budgetary issues dominated the conversation. The state must find revenue sources to pay for its share of the Oregon Health Plan, which could be further imperiled by attempts to scrap or decimate Medicaid funding in Congress.

The American Cancer Society, OHSU and others concerned about stamping out early addiction to carcinogenic tobacco took the first day of the legislative session to renew their push to increase the legal age of tobacco to the same age as alcohol and marijuana.

Piecing together PeaceHealth’s story from public records can be a jumbled process. Corporate financial statements disclosed to bond regulators show the nonprofit’s bottom line for the year that ended June 30, 2016, as well as the first quarter of fiscal year 2017, which ran July 1 through Sept. 30, 2016.

Pacific Northwest healthcare giant PeaceHealth ended its 2016 fiscal year with a $115.6 million deficit, but things were looking up in the first quarter of 2017, when assets climbed by $40.05 million, according to an in-depth Lund Report examination of the Vancouver, Washington-based nonprofit’s financial situation.

Nearly 100 advocacy organizations unite to propose legislative solutions