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Edited by Rhonda Morin This is the first in a series of articles about Oregon’s mental health courts. Today: Washington County’s Mental Health Court offers compassionate approach Special [...]

By Oregon Health News staff SALEM—Democrats passed a bill out of committee in late May that will increase by fivefold the tax on the state’s largest hospitals and start a new tax on [...]

House committee passes pared down health care reform bill Oregon’s House Health Care Committee passed a health care reform package that puts the shell of a health authority in place, but leaves [...]

Edited by Rhonda Morin The downturn in the United States economy has had an effect on hospitals’ bottom lines. Drops in investment income and variable rate bonds have made some hospitals in the [...]

Edited by Rhonda Morin In Oregon and throughout the United States, physicians and the law community have tried to find a balance between what is fair and what is economically sustainable when it [...]

In an attempt to spread the burden of funding Oregon’s public-administered health program to a greater number of entities, the Oregon Medical Insurance Pool (OMIP) board has submitted two [...]

Oregon’s high-risk insurer to change The race to restructure Oregon’s health care system has begun. The state’s high-risk insurance and the health partnership offices are the first [...]

Hospital and insurance tax also given thumbs up Oregon’s House Health Care Committee passed a health care reform package that puts the shell of a health authority in place, but leaves the [...]