Recording of Insurance Exchange Educational Presentation and Panel – PSU and OHSU IHI Open School
The PSU and OHSU Institute for Health Improvement Open School Chapter hosted an Educational Presentation and Panel on Thursday November 21. Presenters and panelists were from Cover Oregon, PSU, Outside In and We Can Do Better. A lot of great information on the...
Follow up story on drop in ED visits
Last week the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) announced a drop in Emergency Department visits. This story shares one Portland doctors thought on why this...
Good News on Early OHP Data
News release this week that "Early data show Oregon Health Plan shifting from emergency care to primary care and holding down costs"....
Oregon Medical Association launches Choosing Wisely in Oregon
Choosing Wisely is a website where you can look up health tests and procedures, helping you decide whether the test or procedure is necessary. We Can Do Better is participating in the Choosing Wisely Task Force through the Oregon Medical Association (OMA). We've added...
The Health Insurance Marketplace- Month One
Read about how the new Health Insurance Marketplaces are doing nationally after the first month in a Commonwealth Fund...
Kitzhaber assures Oregonians they’ll have coverage Jan. 1
In this Portland Business Journal- Healthcare Inc. Northwest article Kitzhaber states Oregonians will be able to obtain insurance through the CoverOregon site by January 1- no one will be left...
Rural Customers Get Nearly the Same Deal as Urbanites on Cover Oregon
Our friends over at The Lund Report bring us this story: Healthy competition on Cover Oregon led by Moda Health has resulted in at least four insurance companies selling plans in every county, creating a market where residents of the most remote parts of the state pay...
How Primary Care Can Handle 15 Million Newly Insured Patients
New article in the Atlantic on How Primary Care Can Handle 15 Million Newly Insured...
56K Oregonians (10% of uninsured) will be covered Jan 1!
So far Oregon has already expanded coverage to 56,000 Oregonians (effective January 1, 2014) through the Medicaid Expansion portion of the Affordable Care Act. More to come as Cover Oregon get's up and running. Read more...
CoverOregon is open- have you checked it out?
CoverOregon, Oregon's Health Insurance Exchange is now live. What has your experience been? See this Commonwealth blog post about the first day of the exchanges in OR and other...
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