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Records provided to The Lund Report show that PeaceHealth St. Johns Medical Center officials may be accessing prescribing records of former doctor employees

Records provided to The Lund Report show that when doctors leave PeaceHealth St. Johns Medical Center, officials there are able to access prescription records for the physician’s new patients – even when those patients are not affiliated with the PeaceHealth system

He believes the CCOs should become accountable to the public, rather than turn into profit centers for physicians, hospitals and stockholders.

The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to cover mental and behavioral health services as an essential health benefit, but the Tri-County Behavioral Health Providers Association is arguing that insurers are using their authorization process to illegally restrict access to these services. The group is asking Insurance Commissioner Cali to order a market conduct examination.

Oregonians face a major reckoning this fall about the services and programs they’d like to have — and the taxes they’re willing to pay to have them. Measure 97, on the Nov. 8 ballot, would raise some $3 billion a year in new revenue by raising taxes on large corporations’ gross receipts. That’s enough money to swell the state’s budget by roughly a third

Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems “is a statewide, non-profit trade association representing Oregon’s acute care hospitals on the domains of advocacy, policy development, quality improvement, and data and analytics.”

He joined the Yamhill CCO as CEO in 2012.