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Outgoing executive director, Dennis McNannay plans to launch his own company after medication adherence issues touch too close to home

A Supreme Court ruling hamstringed the ability of Vermont and other states, such as Oregon, to get a full picture of the medical claims’ costs by allowing federally regulated health plans to opt out. Now for the all-payer, all-claims databases to truly show data from all claims and all payers, they’ll need the U.S. Department of Labor to collect the data for the self-insured health plans.

Insurance carriers are incapable of defining and measuring quality, and their attempts to do so degrade the care physicians are able to provide, according to this author

Earlier this morning FamilyCare sent a counterproposal to the state agency, asking them to render a decision by tomorrow.

After several months of delay, the Oregon Health Authority has released an RFP for the study of single payer and other universal healthcare financing systems. With a November deadline for a report to the Legislature, researchers could have a steep deadline.