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The health care system, which had intermittent problems getting enough COVID-19 vaccine, appears to be the only Oregon hospital group unable to schedule appointments in a timely manner.
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The request comes at a time when the state is trying to curb health care costs but Salem Health says it is trying to make up for a lag in prices in the past.
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Increased profits, especially in the second quarter of the year, were eye-popping for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon.
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Commercial health insurers in Oregon struggled to stem financial losses through the first quarter of 2020, previewing what could be a chaotic year for the insurance industry as the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend the health care system.
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Oregonians who purchase individual or small-group health insurance plans on the marketplace will see only modest rate increases in 2021, the second straight year cost growth has been held largely in check after years of steep price hikes.
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After hefty payments for sick enrollees pushed several of Oregon’s largest commercial insurers to large financial losses in 2018, last year marked a significant rebound for the industry.
Unity Center for Behavioral Health was supposed to answer Portland’s mental health crisis when it opened in 2017, relieving emergency rooms of patients in crisis.
Instead, the center is grappling with what its medical director called a “real state of crisis.”
More than 80,000 union-represented clerical and other workers in the Kaiser Permanente system appear on track to lock in solid pay raises and benefit improvements under a tentative labor agreement announced Wednesday by the California-based nonprofit system and a union umbrella group, Coalition o
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Oregon's largest commercial health insurers racked up solid profits through the first half of 2019, as they took advantage of a brief reprieve from an Affordable Care Act fee that has cost them millions of dollars in past years.
The roughly 350,000 Oregonians who buy individual or small-employer health insurance plans face a range of premium increases in 2020 going as high as 8.9 percent for individuals and 13.1 percent for small groups, under preliminary rates the state issued Wednesday.
