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Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse certain rural hospitals at rates no less than 150 percent of the rates paid as of the effective date of the Act.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to increase reimbursement rates for inpatient psychiatric services provided by hospitals to medical assistance recipients.
Removes provisions relating to the use of the prioritized list of health services in the state medical assistance program.
Prohibits public bodies and private entities from requiring a person to receive an experimental medical intervention or vaccination or to possess an immunity passport, immunity pass or other evidence ...
Prohibits the recovery of reimbursements paid on claims in the medical assistance program if the provider can verify that the patient visit occurred or the service or item was provided.
Prohibits the provision of abortion services to a nonresident, unmarried person under 18 years of age without parental consent.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay.
Prohibits a state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Directs the Department of Education to establish a pilot project to provide telehealth services in K-12 schools in the 2025-2026 school year.
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Requires a vote to adopt a nurse staffing plan by a hospital nurse staffing committee to be documented in the staffing plan.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study the feasibility of funding emergency medical services through a universal health care model.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt a payment mechanism to pay certain nonprofit reproductive health care providers that are not eligible to receive federal Medicaid funds for services provi...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.
Modifies the requirements for Medicaid supplemental reimbursements paid to emergency medical services providers.
Directs a hospital to implement a hospital-wide nurse staffing plan that has been developed and adopted by the hospital nurse staffing committee or, if the committee has not adopted a plan, a hospital...
Requires the Department of Human Services to study emergency departments.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharges.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharge challenges.
Defines "rural" for purposes of the rural health care provider incentive program.
Requires a physician or physician associate to attempt to obtain a patient's informed consent for dismissal to seek emergency medical treatment or for transfer of care to another physician or physicia...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study emergency departments.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decis...
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award scholarships to certain individuals enrolled in behavioral health care programs of study.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority toaward grants to local workforce development boards to partner with certain entities toestablish and implement behavioral health education and training programs fo...
Requires the Department of Human Services to pay parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health or medical needs.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene an advisory group to assist in the study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex men...
Extends the dates by which the Joint Task Force on Regional Behavioral Health Accountability must provide draft recommendations and submit a final report to the interim committees of the Legislative A...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure res...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer a program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decis...
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to community mental health programs.
Requires a behavioral health employer to develop and implement a written safety plan and to provide safety trainings to workers.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to convene a work group to study adult residential mental health services provided by facilities to medical assistance recipients enrolled in coordinated care orga...
Establishes the Task Force on Provider Credentialing to make recommendations for expanding and improving a provider credentialing database maintained by the Oregon Health Authority.
Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years and allows the authority to reevaluate a contract after the initial five...
Extends the term of a contract entered into between the Oregon Health Authority and a coordinated care organization to 10 years and allows the authority to reevaluate a contract after the initial five...
Requires each county to have a facility jointly managed by the sheriff and community mental health program director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or d...
Establishes the Higher Education Behavioral Health Workforce Expansion Fund.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study a methodology for calculating a coordinated care organization's global budget and report the authority's findings to the Legislative Assembly.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a thriving youth pilot program to provide substance use prevention education through comprehensive out-of-school programming and access to specialized ...
Exempts a county or other entity that operates a nurse-family partnership program from paying the nonfederal share of the costs of targeted case management services provided by the program to medical ...
Allows licensees of certain health professional regulatory boards to provide psilocybin services as licensed psilocybin service facilitators while providing the health care or behavioral health care s...
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service to oversee a project to accelerate the promotion of behavioral health in Oregon.
Requires a coordinated care organization to collaborate with local public health authorities, community mental health programs, local planning committees and hospitals in conducting a community health...
Establishes the Seniors Emergency Dental Program in the Oregon Health Authority to provide certain emergency dental services to eligible low-income seniors without any corresponding copayments, deduct...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study Medicaid supplemental reimbursement for ground emergency medical transportation services.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to reimburse hospitals for inpatient psychiatric services provided to medical assistance recipients at rates no less than the re...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations, to the extent permitted by federal law, to establish reimbursement rates for labor and delivery services provided by hospitals t...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study Medicaid supplemental reimbursement for ground emergency medical transportation services.
Establishes the Emergency Behavioral Health Services for Children program in the Oregon Health Authority to promote timely delivery of behavioral health services to children who present to hospital em...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to require behavioral health providers that are certified or licensed by the authority to screen for racial trauma during an initial assessment.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct studies and adopt rules relating to residential treatment facilities, residential treatment homes, secure residential treatment facilities and secure re...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to eligible entities to foster the recruitment and retention of behavioral health care providers at the entities.
Establishes the Residential Behavioral Health Capacity Program within the Oregon Health Authority to fund behavioral health programs that are determined by the authority to increase residential behavi...
Requires the State Treasurer to use up to $44 million from the Unclaimed Property and Estates Fund to guarantee a loan made to a rural hospital for financial stabilization.
Establishes coverage levels for doula services in the state medical assistance program and for health benefit plans that provide coverage for pregnancy and childbirth expenses.
Declares this state's policy to protect engagement in certain activities relating to reproductive health care and gender-affirming treatment.
Modifies the requirements for screening a hospital patient for presumptive eligibility for financial assistance.
Prohibits the student member of the Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors from participating in any discussions or action by the board or attending any executive session of the board...
Requires courts to delay residential eviction trials for nonpayment until at least 90 days following defendants' motion and declaration regarding their health-related social needs housing supports.
Repeals the transfer of certain electronic records from the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State for purposes of voter registration.
Voids noncompetition agreements between a licensed health care provider and another person, with specified exceptions.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to the Coast Community Health Center, or a successor entity, to provide health care servi...
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center to expand access to primary, specialty and ph...
Requires an individual or entity to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority before the individual or entity may establish a new hospice program or expand or relocate a hospice pr...
Directs the Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to establish a grant program to increase the availability of community-based guardianship programs and county public guardian and conservators for pe...
Provides that certain substitute teachers are eligible to enroll in a health benefit plan offered by the Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Provides funding to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be distributed to Oregon Health and Science University for purposes of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship program.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to provide certain payments to hospitals, long term care facilities, residential care facilities and federally qualified health...
Establishes the Task Force on the Prioritized List of Health Services.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to assess current fee-for-service billing practices and non-fee-for-service payment pathways for community health workers serving medical assistance recipients to i...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to prescribe criteria for mobile integrated health care providers to enroll as providers in the state medical assistance program.
Requires the Department of Education to conduct a study to determine the appropriate number of students on a workload for a school-based health practitioner who is a speech-language pathologist, occup...
Makes a public health infrastructure facility an allowed use on any zone if the Oregon Health Authority, Department of Environmental Quality or United States Environmental Protection Agency has establ...
Directs the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission, in collaboration with the Oregon Health Authority, to develop statewide policies and practices to support the availability of medications for opioid use...
Establishes the Veterans Waiver Program in the Oregon Health Authority to provide, beginning in 2026, medical assistance to low-income veterans who reside in Oregon.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program to provide telehealth services to students in schools and determine the extent to which the pilot program increases student access to h...
Requires certain health insurers to reimburse the cost of primary care providers in an independent practice at the same rate as primary care providers within a hospital-based or hospital-affiliated sy...
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for distribution to local health departments and federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon to provide addiction prevention s...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Oregon Board of Optometry, to establish and implement a program that provides eye examinations,prescripti...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a medical science liaison position to develop recommendations for advancing health equity and justice.
Directs the Oregon Drinking Water Services of the Oregon Health Authority to establish a pilot program for training drinking water system operators.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a pilot program to provide low-barrier emergency housing for houseless or unsafely housed individuals on waiting lists for residential substance use d...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Directs the Department of Education to implement policies and procedures that increase access to healthy and culturally relevant food for children in child care.
Appropriates moneys to and limits expenditures by the Department of Human Services, the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of State Police for implementation of programs related to criminal re...
Directs the Health Evidence Review Commission to evaluate gender-affirming treatment.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement a program to award grants to community-based organizations to conduct a public health campaign on the negative health effects of using bete...
Establishes the Latino Health System Task Force.
Repeals the automatic transfer of voter registration information from the Department of Transportation and the Oregon Health Authority to the Secretary of State.
Modifies requirements for certain claims processes for health care providers and insurers.
Authorizes the Department of Education to award grants to school districts and education service districts for the purpose of developing, implementing and annually updating a health services plan.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to award grants to certain recipients for certain workforce development activities.
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer a program to provide matching funds for research at Oregon Health and Science University.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop and administer a program to issue grants to certain hospitals near a tsunami inundation zone to enable the hospitals to store fuel and wat...
Directs the State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to establish a division or subsidiary for the purpose of issuing policies of fire insurance and property insurance against the peril of wildfire.
Directs the Oregon Cybersecurity Advisory Council to conduct assessments to address the reasons why public bodies in this state are unable to meet cybersecurity insurance coverage requirements.
Provides that an individual otherwise eligible for unemployment insurance benefits is not disqualified for any week that the individual's unemployment is due to a labor dispute in active progress at t...
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study the impacts of wildfire and smoke on the recreation and fitness industries, including the cost of property insurance, and on the ability of ...
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish a fish incubation nursery program for the rearing of salmonids in coastal areas of southern Oregon.
Transfers from the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to the Department of Education certain duties, functions and powers related to teaching, administrative and personnel licensure and invest...
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services for certain programs, reimbursements and incentive payments to support the health care wor...
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Early Learning and Care for the purpose of funding Relief Nursery programs.
Appropriates moneys to be used for regional health equity coalitions.
Directs the Oregon Health Authorityto contract directly withcommunity health registered nurses and community-based organizations to provide services to medical assistance recipients.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adjust for inflation the amount of any grant awarded to a regional health equity coalition.
Expands tuition benefits available to disabled veterans to permit veterans who are Oregon residents and are 80 percent or more disabled, and the spouse and child of disabled veterans, to have tuition ...
Establishes the Task Force on Health Insurance Coverage for Retired Police and Fire Members of the Public Employees Retirement System.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration withthe nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon, to adopt rules governing the collection, storage and use of data on tribal affiliation.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority for an electronic filing system related to the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority and the Department of Human Services to disregard parental income when determining a child's eligibility for medical assistance if the child has a physical disabili...
Prohibits the Governor or a state officer or agency from requiring a lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during a declared state of emergency or a declared state of public h...
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit by January 31 of each even-numbered year a report to the Legislative Assembly concerning the soundness of the state's Insurance Fund...
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to assist in the establishment of fall Chinook fish incubation nursery programs, and to report on the programs to the Legislative Assembly.
Permits an asylum seeker who is a student at a public university in this state or Oregon Health and Science University to receive an exemption from nonresident tuition and fees.
Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services and the Department of the State Fire Marshal, in consultation with the State Forestry Department and the insurance industry, to evaluate and de...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules and procedures to allow a hospital to apply for a license as a rural emergency hospital.
Requires hospitals to have policies and procedures in place that address how the hospital will respond if a law enforcement authority arrives at the hospital and to designate which areas of the hospit...
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Modifies laws governing the emergency health care provider registry to allow a broader range of volunteer services and allow deployment of volunteers outside of declared emergencies.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to provide information on the screening protocol for cytomegalovirus to hospitals and birthing centers.
Directs that a hospital shall comply with either the nurse staffing plan for a unit if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has been adopted or, if a nurse staffing plan for the unit has not been adopte...
Modifies the minimum standards for staffing plans for direct care registered nurses in an emergency department.
Adds podiatric physicians and surgeons to the types of providers eligible for the tax credit allowed to rural medical care providers.
Modifies procedure for rebutting presumption of inability to pay child support when an obligor earns wages from work performed while the obligor is a patient at the state hospital or incarcerated.
Requires a hospital to report the amount the hospital spends for individuals to replace employees involved in a strike or lockout.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study options to maximize federal funding for the ground emergency medical transport program.
Requires a hospital to report on the amount of money the hospital spends on strategies to discourage, avoid or prevent labor organizing.
Directs a court to make a finding on dangerousness when committing a person who lacks fitness to proceed to a state mental hospital.
Expands the rural health care income tax credit to include pharmacist services performed in rural communities.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to expand the capacity of the Oregon State Hospital.
Requires a hospital to establish, update and make public a list of standard charges that lists the regular rates or prices established by the hospital for items or services and shoppable services offe...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to administer a program to reimburse the cost of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for low-income veterans who have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury or post-traum...
Provides that the Oregon Health Authority is not required to use administrative law judges from the Office of Administrative Hearings for contested case hearings involving the Oregon State Hospital.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospitals.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital discharges.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study hospital financial assistance.
Prohibits abortions unless a health care provider first performs an ultrasound on the pregnant person, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Requires a hospital or the hospital's health system to report annually to the Oregon Health Authority certain information regarding facility fees that are charged or billed for patient visits at the h...
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to study staffing plans for hospitals.
Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, t...
Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan ...
Requires a hospital to report on a quarterly basis to the Oregon Health Authority its daily cash on hand.
Requires a hospital to report on an annual basis to the Oregon Health Authority the percentage of medical assistance program payments and the amount of other public funds that were invested in stocks.
Requires a hospital to report to the Oregon Health Authority and make publicly available securities data and disclosures that the hospital provides to the federal Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board...
Prohibits a hospital from closing or ceasing, reducing or relocating health services without first providing notice 275 days in advance.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to establish a voluntary pilot program where participating hospitals may screen an eligible individual for hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis when the eligible individua...
Requires a hospital or hospital system in this state to make publicly available certain financial data.
Requires a hospital licensed or hospital system operating in this state to make publicly available its expenses from the preceding year.
Requires a hospital to establish, update and make public a list of standard charges that lists the regular rates or prices established by the hospital for items or services and shoppable services offe...
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to implement a program for providing to emergency departments in real time notifications that identify patients with hemoglobinopathies and provide information on h...
Broadens the description of what constitutes a health impairment for determining when a child is considered a child with a disability for purposes of qualifying for special education.
Prohibits state hospitals from providing inpatient services to individuals who are under 18 years of age.
Provides that a student who is in a hospital educational program shall continue to remain enrolled in the school district in which the student had been a resident prior to being in the hospital educat...
Extends the assessment on earnings from health plan premiums, the assessment on payments by the Oregon Health Authority to managed care organizations, the assessment on hospitals and the Oregon Reinsu...
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Health Authority and the Emergency Board for certain biennial expenses.
Directs the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority to study ways to expedite the eligibility determination process for long term care services and supports.
Requires the Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish a program to assist eligible entities in paying the costs of property insurance or liability insurance premiums for affordable ho...
Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the State Board of Pharmacy.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Human Services and the Oregon Health Authority for the biennium ending June 30, 2025.
Increases for hospitals the annual license fees to be obtained by the Oregon Health Authority.
Authorizes the Director of the Employment Department to waive the unpaid waiting week period for unemployment insurance claimants who are unable to perform services due a state-declared emergency rela...
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