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Oregon health care costs spawn new committees — members needed
Soaring health care costs, which state health officials have been grappling with for years, are also a worry for a majority ...
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Children’s health services could see trims even under scaled-back Medicaid cuts
About half of the nation’s 72.8 million children are covered by Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as ...
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WA hospitals push for veto of lower state insurance reimbursements
Washington hospitals are urging Gov. Bob Ferguson to veto a bill that would limit health insurance reimbursement rates for ...
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Medicaid payments barely keep hospital mental health units afloat. Federal cuts could sink them.
Medicaid covers health care for about 72 million Americans with low incomes or disabilities. Tiefenthaler predicts that if ...
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Oregon health care cost hikes prompt calls for collaboration, change
Felisa Hagins, executive director of the Oregon State Council of the Service Employees International Union was among several ...
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Why cameras are popping up in eldercare facilities
After filing a police report and a lawsuit, and after her mother’s 2014 death, Peters in 2016 helped found Elder Voice ...
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'Administrative collapse:' Advocates blame evictions on new Oregon Health Authority housing program
The public outcry comes at a time when the agency, which oversees care to more than 1.4 million low-income people, is dealing ...
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Democrat attorneys general sue RFK Jr., Trump administration to keep public health programs
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield joined 19 other attorneys general in filing the lawsuit. He was also part of a coalition ...
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Construction picking up at new Washington psychiatric hospital
The state broke ground in October on the new 350-bed facility at Western State Hospital in Pierce County. Work began in ...
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Treatment providers say Oregon health officials’ new rule is hurting care
A group of mental health providers are accusing Oregon health officials of trying to dodge a federal judge’s contempt order ...
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Former OHSU oncologist Vinay Prasad tapped by RFK Jr. to head FDA vaccine division
FDA commissioner Marty Makary told FDA staff in an email that Prasad, “brings a great set of skills, energy, and competence ...
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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden seeks answers on RFK Jr.’s purge of FOIA staff
The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass dismissals of workers who release government records “raise grave ...