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At a Portland-based conference on the MACRA reforms passed in Congress in 2015, medical providers dug into how federal efforts to fundamentally overhaul Medicare reimbursements are driving changes in how they manage patients and budgets.

House Bill 3355 sets up a program that allows psychologists with increased training to prescribe psychotropic medications in a medical setting. The bill is designed to offset the declining number of psychiatrists and over-reliance on family practice doctors, who have less mental health expertise, to prescribe mental health drugs.