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Bill would bolster oversight role, staffing and composition of Oregon Health Policy Board
Summary
Senate Bill 388 would strengthen the Oregon Health Policy Board's authority, require more independent staffing and revise board composition to add management and behavioral health expertise, sponsors and witnesses told a Senate hearing on Feb. 6.
Senate Bill 388, presented to the Senate Committee on Health Care on Feb. 6, 2025, would require the Oregon Health Policy Board to produce a report on the state's integrated and coordinated care system and would change the board's membership, staffing and operations to strengthen independent oversight of the Oregon Health Authority.
Sponsor Senator Hayden said the board was created in 2009 as an oversight body to the Oregon Health Authority but that over time the board had not consistently exercised the authority envisioned in statute. "The concept here ... is to push forward the oversight, of the Oregon Health Policy Board to define who's on the Oregon Health Policy Board," Senator Hayden said, describing the proposal as an effort to restore the board's intended governance role.
Art Sukhozhevsky (identified in testimony as representing FamilyCare Health) told…
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