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A mental health professional, who remembers his own attempts to kill himself three decades ago, says he wouldn’t have survived the same experience today.

The Oregon Health Authority released $47 million in bonus money along with the first annual report on the coordinated care organizations’ efforts to meet 17 quality metrics. The locally operated health plans for Medicaid clients are doing a good job reducing unnecessary ED visits and hospital stays for chronic conditions, but other metrics the state highlight in the report, such as an alleged increase in developmental screenings for children, are misleading.

Providers can’t yet meet testing volume demands of new screening program as COVID outbreaks at schools and cases among children escalate.

Speaking at an online forum, officials note that Oregon spends plenty of money -- $3.7 billion over two years -- but gets poor results.