Official Summary

Digest: The Act makes changes to laws about mental health and substance use disorder treatment. The Act changes a law about quality reviews of CCOs. The Act says who can be reimbursed for telehealth services. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.9). [Digest: The Act makes changes to laws relating to mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).] Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment. Prohibits the authority or a contracted external quality review organization, under certain circumstances, from making a negative finding about or imposing a penalty on a coordinated care organization based on documents or templates created by the authority for use by a coordinated care organization. Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology. Modifies the types of providers that may be reimbursed in the state medical assistance program for the cost of health services delivered using telemedicine. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.