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An ambulance pulls into the entrance driveway for Oregon Health & Science University's emergency department on Wed., Oct. 27, 2021. | OHSU/CHRISTINE TORRES HICKS

Opinion: OHSU’s acquisition of Legacy Health likely to worsen the state's affordability crisis

Higher prices charged by Oregon Health & Science University if the proposed merger goes through would likely accelerate premium hikes, damaging business growth and wages, Oregon health care analyst says

Feb 20

Sejal Hathi, the director of the Oregon Health Authority, has taken a part-time job seeing patients at Stanford University's teaching hospital in California. Hathi said she misses seeing patients, will work a weekend a month and is trying to restructure the position so she receives no pay. | STATE OF OREGON

Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi defends outside job at legislative hearing

Critics say her $265,000-a-year-job is 24-7, but Hathi told lawmakers her side job won't be a distraction from Oregon's largest state agency. She plans to work a shift or two a month at Stanford University's teaching hospital .

Feb 20
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Trump disbands health equity panel examining Medicare and Medicaid

The committee was designed to reduce barriers to care for people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans. A new executive order deemed it "unnecessary."

Feb 20

United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. | FRANCINE SRECA/PIXABAY

U.S. Senate Dems issue warning on ‘massive cuts’ to Medicaid predicted in GOP budget

President Donald Trump said that cuts to the government insurance program for low-income people are off the table, comments that are at odds with plans floated by Congressional Republicans

Feb 20

Wildfire smoke covers the Ochocos Mountains in Central Oregon on Aug. 18, 2020. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon is home to 4 of the top 5 smokiest cities nationwide

Northwest researchers find Medford, Grants Pass and Bend had the most wildfire smoke from 2019-2023

Feb 20

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Texas banned abortion. Then sepsis rates soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Feb 20

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Salem Health will stop accepting Regence insurance over contract impasse

Both sides said the other was to blame for unreasonable contract demands that could disrupt care for up to 30,000 people

Feb 20
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Hospitals want reimbursement for boarding psychiatric patients

Local health authorities say the move would cost them more and further confuse the question of who’s responsible for patients committed by a judge

Feb 20
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Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi has taken a side job in California

Stanford University is touting its hire of Hathi, a prominent state official and a physician, to see patients at its teaching hospital. It's a paid position, but Hathi said she is talking to the university about how to avoid receiving compensation.

Feb 19
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention campus in Atlanta, Georgia. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate

Delays in urgent CDC analyses of seasonal flu and bird flu, and the agency’s silence, will harm Americans as outbreaks escalate, doctors and public health experts warn.

Feb 18

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