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Jan 16, 2025 · Learn about the new updated vaccines, including details on who should get it and when, where to get it, why it’s important and how it’s paid for.
Oregon Health Authority extends benefits to young adults with …
Jan 17, 2025 · One in five children in Oregon has a special health care need: nearly 174,300 people. Across the state, Medicaid serves about 1.4 million people. The program is part of Oregon’s goal to widen access to health care insurance and eliminate inequalities in health care access. It has set a goal of eliminating barriers to health care statewide by ...
Three health care companies increased costs excessively, Oregon …
4 days ago · In a dry run of an Oregon program that aims to curb soaring health care costs, officials have warned two insurance companies and a chain of clinics that their spending grew excessively between 2021 and 2022.. The warnings issued by the Oregon Health Authority are the first of their kind since lawmakers in 2019 first launched an ambitious effort modeled on a similar program in Massachusetts ...
Oregon’s health care crises will spill over into the new year
Dec 26, 2022 · Oregon faces lingering health care issues as the pandemic appears to wane. They include a mental health crisis, a shortage of hospital beds that is exacerbated during surges in COVID-19, influenza or other illnesses like RSV.
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Oregon health leaders prepare for future Medicaid changes to …
Apr 24, 2024 · Oregon health care leaders are mapping out the future of the state's Medicaid plan, with an eye toward erasing disparities.
Health officials say Eugene medical chain, two Oregon insurers ...
3 days ago · The state found that cost of care for privately insured patients at Oregon Medical Group, which owns a chain of clinics in the Eugene area, surged by 6.5% — nearly double the state’s target ...
Oregon Medical Workers Launch Largest Healthcare Strike in …
Jan 10, 2025 · Providence officials say the company has made "competitive offers" to hospital bargaining units, "including double-digit pay increases for hospital nurses representing more than $12,000 a year for a typical nurse." In a Friday statement referencing Oregon's mandatory 10-day strike notice period, Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek said that "Providence wasted 10 days when they could have been at ...
Oregon lawmakers preview health care priorities for 2025 session
Jan 9, 2025 · Oregon lawmakers plan to address myriad challenges on the state’s health care landscape next year. The behavioral health system lacks thousands of residential care beds. Hospitals are burdened with mental health patients they’re not equipped to serve.
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