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Health insurance companies submitted rate requests to the Department of Consumer and Business Services, Division of Financial Regulation on May 2. The division must review and approve any rates before they can be charged to policyholders.

Oregon's Health CO-OP has signed a letter of intent to develop a new population health partnership with OHSU, Salem Health, Tuality Health and Adventist Health System.

OPINION -- The U.S. Senate Finance Committee (on which Senator Ron Wyden serves as the ranking member) held a hearing on the state of mental health care in America last Thursday, at which Oregon’s own Maggie Bennington-Davis, MD (who graduated from OHSU’s medical school and psychiatry residency program and went on to work at Salem Hospital, then was chief medical officer at Cascadia BH services before becoming CMO at HealthShare, the largest CCO in Oregon) was one of the four notable persons invited to testify before the committee.

The Oregon Health Forum the high price of the U.S. medical system, which is marked by massive waste. The $1 trillion in excess spending ends up benefitting the industry, which applies tremendous political pressure to keep costs bloated.

ONA nurses win a voice on patient care and working conditions