She is expected to play a commanding role at Providence after leaving St. Charles Medical Center
By:
Diane Lund-Muzikant
The Providence Medical Group has snagged one of the state’s leading psychologists as its behavioral health director.
The new Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace is targeting counties in northwest Oregon to get at the 116,000 people who could be buying plans on the federal exchange but remain uninsured. While some consumers may re-enroll automatically, massive price spikes at Moda Health and Lifewise may cause a massive shift in the market as consumers opt for cheaper plans at Kaiser, the Oregon Health CO-OP and Providence.
By:
Chris Gray
The remaining operations for the state’s insurance exchange appear to have shifted tranquilly from the wreckage of Cover Oregon over to the Department of Consumer and Business Services, with 2015 enrollment at 107,000 people -- up from 70,000 in 2014.
The looming question is which other hospitals will join the newly created OHSU Partners.
By:
Diane Lund-Muzikant
Now that OHSU, Salem Health and Tuality Healthcare are joining hands to create a new endeavor, is there another hospital or two waiting in the wings?
Jack Friedman, who stepped down as CEO of Providence Health Plan, said a deal had been in the works to merge with PacificSource earlier this year.
By:
Diane Lund-Muzikant
Commercial insurance companies are making high margins on the business side, while healthcare costs are way out of control, according to Jack Friedman, the former CEO of Providence Health Plan.
The computer chip maker’s new healthcare delivery model has already attracted interest from other self-insured employers and the state and federal government.
By:
Diane Lund-Muzikant
One of the largest self-insured employers in Oregon has embarked on a novel approach that bypasses insurance companies. Intel, with 17,500 employees and their 33,000 dependents, is determined to create a healthier work force and, at the same time, keep costs under control.
Separately, proposed rules from the Insurance Division on Friday to make insurance companies comply with the recent court decision against Providence forces insurers to pay for claims back to 2008 and lifts a 25-hour cap on coverage for applied behavior analysis.
But a separate lawsuit, brought against the Public Employees Benefit Board, burns on, as the state of Oregon argues that the mental health parity law doesn’t apply to it. Meanwhile, the Health Evidence Review Commission is expected to approve applied behavior analysis for the Oregon Health Plan at its meeting later this week.
By:
Christopher David Gray
Providence Health Plan has lost the federal class-action lawsuit brought by the parents of preschool-age autistic children after the insurer denied their physician-prescribed treatment, applied behavior analysis.
Health Care for All Oregon supporters attended a city council meeting on Wed., May 29 to ask the city to disclose the amount paid for the naming rights paid to Peregrine by Providence for the naming rights to Civic Stadium.
By:
Health Care for All Oregon
About 18 people from Health Care for All Oregon attended the City Council meeting on Wednesday, May 28, to tell city commissioners that we would like the city to let us disclose the amount Providence paid for the naming rights to Civic Stadium.
Regence donated $236,000 to political candidates and causes in a failed attempt to shift control of the Legislature to Republicans, according to records filed with the Secretatry of State.
By:
Christopher David Gray
August 27, 2013 — Health insurance companies have poured more than $550,000 into state and local elections in Oregon since the start of 2011, with over 40 percent of that money spent by Regence BlueCross BlueShield, which invested $236,000 in its preferred candidates and causes.
At the same time, its health insurance enrollment has grown by 34 percent over the past two years.
By:
Courtney Sherwood
August 27, 2013 -- Moda Health, which has purchased the naming rights for the Rose Garden basketball arena, appears to have adequate resources to afford the deal, according to insurance reports filed with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
During 2012, it earned $5.3 million in net profits on top of its investments in the stock and bond market.
