Senate Committee Receives Overview of Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations

Summary

Committee members heard an informational briefing from CCO leaders about how Coordinated Care Organizations deliver Medicaid benefits, key challenges including provider rates and workforce shortages, and programs aimed at early childhood behavioral health such as Project Nurture and the CCO quality incentive program.

The Senate Committee on Early Childhood and Behavioral Health on Jan. 30 held an informational hearing on Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs), hearing from Anne Ford of Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc. (Eastern Oregon CCO), Josh Balak of AllCare Health, and Dr. Maggie Bennington Davis, chief medical officer at HealthShare of Oregon.

Presenters described CCOs as locally governed entities that contract with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to deliver the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) Medicaid benefit. Anne Ford said about 1.4 million Oregonians are on OHP—roughly one‑third of the state—and that roughly 92 percent of those enrollees are covered by one of the 16 CCOs. Ford described operational realities in rural regions, including Eastern Oregon CCO’s service area of 12 counties that cover about 50 percent of Oregon’s land mass but only about 5 percent of the state’s population.

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Senate Committee Receives Overview of Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations

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