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The unaffiliated candidate for Oregon governor says she’ll “look beyond ideology and partisan divides and take the best ideas from both parties.”

It’s been nearly 18 months since the first Coordinated Care Organizations got under way in Oregon. And like the rest of the healthcare industry, it’s been a time of transition, transformation and challenges. The Eastern Oregon CCO in northeastern Oregon has had particular success reaching providers, helping them become recognized as Patient-Centered Primary Care Homes.

A Supreme Court ruling hamstringed the ability of Vermont and other states, such as Oregon, to get a full picture of the medical claims’ costs by allowing federally regulated health plans to opt out. Now for the all-payer, all-claims databases to truly show data from all claims and all payers, they’ll need the U.S. Department of Labor to collect the data for the self-insured health plans.