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Oregon State Hospital Superintendent Dolly Matteucci speaks to the Oregon House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee on Wednesday May 31, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Oregon State Hospital official says federal order moving admissions in right direction

The psychiatric facility is getting closer to compliance with a federal civil rights ruling

Jun 1, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem. | OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY

Judge rules that hospitals can’t sue the state over civilly committed patients

Oregon hospital systems can’t complain about costly and difficult patients while advocating for their civil rights, a federal ruling says

May 30, 2023
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Oregon Capitol in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Health care bills without price tag or controversy slip past Senate standoff

While the impasse in Salem has tied up major health care legislation, some consequential bills are becoming law

May 30, 2023
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Oregon Health Authority says so far most people will keep Medicaid as eligibility checks resume

Oregon’s comparatively drawn-out approach to the Medicaid review will take up more complicated cases in the coming months

May 25, 2023
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Oregon Senate President Rob Wagner, D-Lake Oswego, presiding over the chamber on March 21, 2023. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Stacks of health care bills in limbo as stances harden in Salem

They include legislation impacting Measure 110, hospital staffing levels, the opioid crisis and CCOs

May 25, 2023

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Bills intended to help Oregon pharmacies caught up in walkout

Lawmakers began regulating pharmacy benefit managers in 2015, but the state has never issued an enforcement action

May 23, 2023
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The Capitol Building in Salem. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Improved Oregon revenue forecast could fund health care improvements

Behavioral health, coverage, workforce loom large on the laundry list of unmet requests facing state lawmakers. A legislative impasse could keep them from going anywhere despite the availability of new funds.

May 18, 2023
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The OHSU Center for Health & Healing Building 2 in the South Waterfront neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, on July 25, 2020. | SHUTTERSTOCK

Oregon lawmakers further ease proton therapy coverage despite lingering debate

Bill tweaks law prohibiting insurers from denying high-cost cancer treatment

May 18, 2023
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Activists on Feb. 13, 2023, protested the proposed closure of Mount Hood Family Birth Center in Gresham. | JAKE THOMAS/THE LUND REPORT

Legacy’s Gresham maternity unit closure endangered patients, federal regulators say

Blistering federal notice says Legacy’s Gresham-based hospital could lose Medicare payments unless it corrects findings of patient safety violations

May 11, 2023
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Oregon State Hospital in Salem. | BEN BOTKIN/THE LUND REPORT

Federal judge considers changes to state hospital discharge order

Changes seek to resolve a conflict between state and federal authorities that prompted the Marion County sheriff to stop transporting discharged Oregon State Hospital patients

May 11, 2023
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