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Oregon lawmakers try again on pharmacy benefit manager …
Jan 30, 2024 · State Rep. Nancy Nathanson, a Eugene Democrat who is cosponsoring the new bill, told The Lund Report that pharmacies continue to be driven out of business by pharmacy benefit managers, the outsized intermediaries that negotiate drug prices between insurers and manufacturers. Pharmacists from all across the state told lawmakers last session that ...
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Northwest Permanente hit with Salem radiologist's $8.2 million whistleblower retaliation suit. The medical group 'strongly disputes' the allegations, but Layne Tarbox's suit claims raising concerns won him threats and retaliation; medical board records show two coworkers faced action over alleged fraud. Oct 31.
Oregon Health Care Workers Increasingly Turn To Unions
Jun 21, 2022 · The state’s health care workers are increasingly turning to labor unions and organizing, bargaining and seeking better pay and working conditions two years after COVID-19 hammered the industry. The shift reflects concerns about safety in the health care industry and is part of a broader push to organize, from logistics workers at Amazon ...
Oregon Prepares To Expand Coverage to Undocumented Adults
Dec 28, 2021 · The free coverage offered under the Oregon Health Plan will soon be open to people regardless of their immigration status. “Cover All People,” which the Legislature passed in the 2021 regular session through House Bill 3352, will extend the Medicaid-funded Oregon Health Plan to low-income adults who are undocumented immigrants.Lawmakers appropriated $100 million in state funding for the ...
Oregon's Constitutional Amendment For Affordable Health Care …
Oct 18, 2022 · A physician, Steiner Hayward sponsored the 2021 legislation. Now, Oregonians will decide at the polls in November if affordable health care should be a constitutional right. Supporters say the ballot measure would promote access to health care and inform future policy decisions. On the other side, detractors warn that putting health care as a ...
Lack Of Affordable Housing Is Biggest Cause Of Homelessness, …
May 31, 2019. “Homelessness is caused by a lack of housing, full stop.”. It really is that simple, Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, told an audience Friday morning at the Oregon Health Forum. Homelessness, she said, can’t be blamed on an opioid epidemic or shortcomings in the mental ...
OHSU, Legacy submit long-delayed paperwork for proposed merger
This article has been updated to incorporate additional reporting. Oregon Health & Science University and Portland-based Legacy Health hospital chain have submitted their long-awaited application for state approval of a proposed merger, launching a new phase of scrutiny for the proposed deal. Having announced the idea more than a year ago, the public research university and six-hospital ...
Tasked With Spending Windfall, Measure 110 Council Struggles
Feb 9, 2022 · Update Feb. 24: After hearing from state attorneys during a closed session on Feb. 23, the Measure 110 Oversight and Accountability Council reconvened for a public meeting to adopt a new process for voting on grants. Each application will still be reviewed by a team of two council members, however the subcommittee will review each evaluation rubric, or checklist, before voting “do pass” or ...
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