Regence Health Policy Center Director Vince Porter has worked on several key pieces of legislation including the creation of Oregon’s Prescription Drug Price Transparency Program and the Sustainable Health Care ...
The governors of Washington, Oregon, and California issued a multi-state commitment to defend access to reproductive health care, including abortion and contraceptives, and committed to protecting patients and doctors against ...
Colorado’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) concluded its most recent meeting on June 3rd where the Division of Insurance Board staff outlined the Draft Proposed Rules for the drug cost ...
The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) is planning to implement a new electronic health record (EHR) system, but stakeholders have some concerns about the type of vendor software that is ...
According to a new report, medical inflation may force health providers in Colorado to cut services and pass on rising costs of the Colorado Option to insured consumers. ...
Fourteen health insurers filed an average requested rate increase of 7.16% for Washington’s individual health insurance market. The plans and proposed rates are currently under review and final decisions will ...
A Seattle therapist recently filed a proposal for an initiative that would authorize and regulate the manufacture, sale, and use of psilocybin in Washington State. Leo Russell submitted ...
Medicare-directed managed care has come a long way in four decades. What began in 1985 as a limited option available only in select markets—it was initially known as “HMO risk ...
Some of health care’s most insightful leaders joined us on our morning keynote at our 2022 State of Reform Federal Health Policy Conference to talk about what they’re watching in ...
Sen. Sara Gelser Blouin serves as chair of the Senate Committee on Human Services, Mental Health and Recovery. State of Reform spoke with her this week to see what bills ...