The CEO of Architrave Health, the coordinated care organization in Douglas County, lost his job Tuesday, while a federal probe on physician self-referrals could be underway.
Dr. Robert Dannehoffer lost his job Tuesday as CEO of Architrave Health after helping create the coordinated care organization in 2013, bringing together the physician community and the independent hospital – Douglas County IPA and Mercy Medical Center, which are equal partners.
Senate Bill 279 would free the Oregon Medical Board from the budget scrutiny of the legislative Committee on Ways & Means, and open an independent but still public budget process for the board, which executive director Kathleen Haley says will save the board money while still providing oversight.
The Oregon Medical Board has put forward legislation that would loosen state controls of the board and turn the medical board into a “semi-independent state agency,” less bound by the tight budget process that most state licensing agencies have to go through.
