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All-Payer, All-Claims Database Future at Stake in Supreme Court Case

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has joined other states to support Vermont’s ability to gather medical claims data from self-insured health plans otherwise governed by federal law. Consumer groups, the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association all support Vermont, but the Supreme Court justices seemed to favor the other side, including the BlueCross BlueShield Association in arguments last week.

Dec 8, 2015

Kaiser Permanente workers represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 49 hold a picket outside Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro on July 24, 2023 to pressure the managed care consortium on contract negotiations. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Kaiser Permanente workers ratify deal after historic strike

The approved contract includes a 21% wage increase over four years, a $23 per hour minimum wage in Oregon and Washington facilities, and a year of accelerated hiring to improve staffing ratios

Nov 11, 2023

A patient room at the OHSU Center for Women's Health | COURTESY OF OHSU

OHSU privatizing fertility services as San Francisco company opens clinic in Portland

OHSU will lay off some employees and 'lease’ physicians to Spring Fertility when the private equity—backed firm opens a new facility in Northwest Portland, potentially meaning a smaller waitlist for would-be parents

Dec 12, 2023
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Providence Hospitals See Oregon Profits Fall 67% in 2014, to Still Respectable $59.8 Million

Financial results for Providence’s Oregon hospitals show a dramatic financial impact that the Affordable Care Act has had on hospitals that once had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars caring for low-income or indigent patients unable to pay their bills

Mar 30, 2016
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