This week at The Lund Report

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, Learn

Our friends over at The Lund Report are doing some good reporting. Here’s their current offering. Hospitals See Their Medicaid Rate Cut by 15 Percent Officials from the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems admit they’re disappointed with Governor...

OHA is Looking for Technically Minded Consumers

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Act, Blog, Learn

Due to passage of SB 204, Tina Edlund, Deputy Director of the Oregon Health Authority, is forming a stakeholder group to meet in November and December (probably no more than 4 meetings, likely 2 hours each) to work with them and a firm that will be offering technical...

Multnomah County Considers Ban on BPA

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Act, Blog, Learn

The Multnomah Board of County Commisioners are considering a ban on Bisphenol A (BPA), proposed by chair Jeff Cogen. BPA is a potentially cancer-causing chemical that is found in some beverage containers like baby bottles and zippy cups. Commissioner Cogen is pushing...

Why Not the Best?

by | Oct 19, 2011 | Blog, Learn

The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System just published a report entitled: Why Not the Best? Results from the National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance. The graphic below shows some of their conclusions, but you can read the...

Mental health parity lives up to its promise

by | Oct 15, 2011 | Blog, Learn

The Oregonian ran an editorial inspired by a review of Oregon’s “parity” law: A study reaffirms Oregon’s law forcing insurers to stop discriminating against persons with mental illness, and bolsters similar federal legislation For a shamefully...