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The Salem hospital wants to block Oregon’s second-largest metro area from its attempt to offer night and weekend bus service because a $600,000 payroll tax would cut into its profits, which exceeded $35 million in 2012. The hospital recently received a $50,000 grant from the transit district to improve transportation options, but has spent $50,000 to kill the transit district levy.

The details, which you’ll find only in The Lund Report, are yet one more reason to support our vital work.

FamilyCare received some of the biggest cuts, moving from one of the best-paid CCOs to the least paid. A state report shows that the CCOs were paid nearly as much for younger adults as they were for older adults, and a more refined analysis ordered by the feds caused the state to adjust rates more closely to actual claims.

The test could help hepatitis C patients get access to medications

Health Republic CEO Dawn Bonder tells The Lund Report that her company had always adopted the tortoise approach to success: slow and steady. Health Republic and its rival, Oregon’s Health CO-OP, each have only 1 percent of the market, but anticipate growth.