5 Things Oregon: Future of CCO model, Plan-provider relations, Regulating cost growth
Emily Boerger | Oct 21, 2021 | Oregon
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Allyson Hagen | Apr 23, 2019 | Oregon
Oregon Medicaid Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) Letters of Intent (LOI) are in, and significant changes are afoot. With strong bipartisan support for the CCO experiment in Salem and funding levels seeming relatively secure under Democratic supermajorities, several players are proposing to expand their Medicaid business. There also could be –
Four months into Medicaid expansion, two of Oregon’s 16 coordinated care organizations (CCOs) have closed to new enrollment because they’ve gotten unexpectedly high numbers of new patients. Trillium Community Health Plan, the CCO serving Lane County, closed in mid-March. Debi Farr, Trillium’s spokesperson, said approximately 25,000 people enrolled in the