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Gov. Brown’s Medicaid Budget Would Crimp Hospitals, Insurers

A hospital industry group criticizes the proposed cuts in Medicaid reimbursement rates following a rough year for hospitals that have seen reduced revenue from elective procedures.

Dec 1, 2020
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OHSU Income $40 Million Better than Budgeted, Record Net Worth

Oregon Health & Science University celebrates 20 years as a “public corporation” with double the patients and students and quadruple the budget since 1995, president Joe Robertson told the OHSU board in his opening comments.

Sep 29, 2015

Oregon Health Authority Salaries Show Sharp Rise Under Saxton

The state agency has hired 862 more employees since 2013 and increased salaries on upper management by 18 percent, helping to drive a 29 percent overall increase in payroll.

Nov 30, 2016

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Biden administration’s limit on drug industry middlemen backfires, pharmacists say

In the wake of a Medicare rule change pharmacists are being hit with draconian cuts to their payments for dispensing medicines

Nov 15, 2023

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Oregon lawmakers struggle to improve drug monitoring tool

The state’s prescription drug monitoring program has lagged behind other states

Mar 30, 2023

Osteopathic physician Kevin de Regnier of Winterset, Iowa, checks Chris Bourne, who came in for an adjustment of his anxiety medication on May 9, 2023. | TONY LEYS/KFF HEALTH NEWS