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Providers and county officials press for data after CCO policy change that limited youth access
Summary
Local clinicians and committee members said an OHP/CCO policy change reduced insurance reimbursement for some youth, leaving private clinicians to continue care out-of-pocket and raising calls for before-and-after claims data from the CCO; the county and CBH described available capacity and shelter shifts.
Committee members and private clinicians pressed county staff and CCO representatives for clearer program data after a recent Oregon Health Plan/CCO policy change the committee said reduced youth access to reimbursed mental-health therapy.
Amber Bowman, a private-practice clinician, said she had been seeing 14 OHP-enrolled youth before the policy change, that nine of those youth chose to continue seeing her without insurance billing, and that five of those are on her reduced-fee sliding scale. "Five of those 9, they qualify for my lowest reduced fee," she…
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