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Hit by Higher Prices for Gear, Doctors and Dentists Want Insurers to Pay

Physicians and dentists say insurance companies are flush with cash after collecting premiums during the pandemic but paying fewer claims than usual and so they should pay for supplies.

May 5, 2021

Leaders Call for Far-Reaching Changes to Meet Oregon’s Healthcare Workforce Needs

How insurance companies pay providers, how universities work with hospitals, how accrediting bodies set requirements, and how students pay for medical school are all factors in workforce challenges that are especially severe in rural areas.

Mar 23, 2018

Profits Fall as Membership Rises at Oregon’s Insurance Companies

First-quarter results show only Providence profitable among the state’s largest insurers, while Moda, Regence, Kaiser all grow membership despite financial losses

May 20, 2015
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Senate Votes to Require Health Insurers to Send Checks to Providers, Not Patients

The Oregon Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would require health insurance companies to send payments directly to the healthcare provider, and not the patient -- something currently practiced by Regence BlueCross BlueShield, Lifewise Health Plan and UnitedHealthCare, and possibly other insurance companies.

Apr 17, 2015
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Network Adequacy Legislation Sails Through House, Directs State to Write Details

House Bill 2468 attempts to respond to Oregon’s lagging standards for adequate provider networks for health plans and sets up a lengthy Insurance Division process to ensure consumers are buying health plans that actually link them to a proper number of healthcare providers to give them the health coverage advertised, and do so in a transparent way.

Apr 3, 2015

Buehler Shepherds Right-To-Try Bill to House Floor with Limitations

The libertarian measure would give patients access to unapproved drugs if they have been given less than a year to live. Patients would be on their own with the drugs and have to assume responsibility for any complications, which insurers would not have to cover.

Mar 31, 2015

Health Net President Chris Ellertson Leads with 86 Percent Salary Increase

Looking at the executive compensation among health insurance executives in 2012, John Stellmon, who retired from Regence last April, was the highest paid, earning $1.8 million, a 537% increase from 2011

Apr 17, 2013