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The role of pharmacy professionals is expanding and their importance in the management of the health of patients, particularly in the evolving models where payment is made for quality and cost-effectiveness, will be a key driver in reducing the overall cost of drugs and healthcare.

Younger baby boomers are in need of more long-term care than the previous generation, leading to rising costs for the state. That, combined with new labor rules requiring care workers to get paid for overtime, has led the state to end the live-in care worker program and narrow the approval for services.

The small Corvallis health insurer and CCO has removed the barriers for physical and occupational therapy for its members, hoping that by getting out of the way, patients will be more inclined to use this service and less dependent on opioid medications.

The K Plan that greatly improved developmental disabilities services meant the state could no longer shut out developmentally or intellectually disabled children or forgo paying for all of a person’s needs. But the state never budgeted for more kids, leaving the state with a rude awakening when four times as many families signed up.