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In the continued battle between the state and Oregon’s second-largest Medicaid provider over reimbursement, the Health Authority is soliciting a backup CCO that could undercut FamilyCare. Meanwhile, the 2016 rates for the CCOs show a pattern of higher payment for those with hospital monopolies.

DentaQuest will own 80 percent of Advantage Community Holding Company, which will retain 20 percent ownership of the company.

Sen. Alan Bates plans to meet with Gov. Kate Brown as a controversy has erupted over the revised 2015 payments to coordinated care organizations that cut the Medicaid program rather than give the organizations the 3.4 percent increase promised. The state’s order to FamilyCare that it return 9 percent of its current revenues -- $55 million -- would wipe out its profit for the year, and put it on rocky footing going forward. Rep. Mitch Greenlick agreed with some of the calculations but argued that the rates for the Medicaid expansion were more arbitrary and could threaten the CCOs’ ability to innovate and transform the delivery system.