Oregon Health Authority outlines Health Policy & Analytics priorities, requests funding for market oversight and state-based marketplace

SALEM, Ore. — At a Feb. 11 joint Subcommittee on Human Services informational meeting on House Bill 5025, Claire Pierce Scribe, director of the Health Policy and Analytics (HPA) Division at the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), outlined HPA’s role in data-driven health policy, affordability efforts and workforce programs and presented two budget requests: ongoing support for the Healthcare Market Oversight program and funding to implement a state-based insurance marketplace.

HPA, Pierce Scribe said, works “to help achieve better health, better health outcomes, and lower cost for the state of Oregon.” The division supports data collection and analysis, policy design and program implementation across Medicaid, commercial markets, and state benefits programs, she told the subcommittee.

Why it matters: HPA supplies data and policy work used to set Medicaid rates, oversee coordinated care organizations (CCOs), measure statewide cost growth and design new coverage options. The division’s presentation tied its budget requests directly to OHA goals on coverage, affordability and equity and emphasized the use of data to target interventions and monitor cost drivers.

HPA’s examples and numbers included: an interactive Medicaid enrollment dashboard and CCO metrics dashboards; the All-Payer…