Providers, Insurers Brace For Virus Financial Fallout
As state health care providers brace for waves of coronavirus patients, it’s uncertain how Oregon hospitals and health insurers will handle the financial strain.
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As state health care providers brace for waves of coronavirus patients, it’s uncertain how Oregon hospitals and health insurers will handle the financial strain.
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Democratic legislative leaders declared the session over on Thursday, blaming the failure on Republican lawmakers who walked out to prevent a quorum and kill a cap-and-trade bill.
The Oregon Health Authority has not done enough to prevent the potential misspending of millions of dollars of taxpayer money, an audit by the Secretary of State’s office found.
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A first-of-its-kind clinic just opened on the north Oregon Coast to provide opioid addiction treatment in an area that’s been hard hit by opioid-related deaths.
A data breach at a contractor for Health Share of Oregon, the Portland area’s Medicaid insurer, has potentially compromised the personal information of about 650,000 people.
Trillium Community Health Plan has abandoned its lawsuit against three large providers in the Portland area.
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A new five-year round in Oregon’s Medicaid system has just begun and already it’s taken a toll on Trillium Community Health Plan, a for-profit insurer facing competition for the first time on its home turf.
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In the years following the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, state officials looked for innovative ways to cap rising health care costs as the expansion swelled the pool of low-income Oregon Health Plan patients needing care.
Thus emerged a magic number: 3.4%.
Overall spending on primary care in Oregon increased in 2018, but growth in specialty and hospital care grew even more, eating up an even bigger piece of the health care economy, according to a state report released Monday.
The Trump administration unveiled a plan Thursday that would dramatically revamp Medicaid by allowing states to opt out of part of the current federal funding program and instead seek a fixed payment each