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Oregon task force hears LPRO inventory of behavioral health funding conduits; staff flag fragmented system and data gaps
Summary
Legislative staff told the Joint Task Force that Oregon’s behavioral health funding flows through many channels — Medicaid/CCO contracts, county agreements, federal SAMHSA grants, settlement and tax revenues — and that stakeholders view the combined system as fragmented and lacking the information needed to coordinate dollars effectively.
The Joint Task Force on Regional Behavioral Health Accountability on Tuesday heard a detailed briefing from the Legislative Policy and Research Office on the state’s “funding conduits” for behavioral health services.
Shauna O’Neil of the Legislative Policy and Research Office told members the office compiled an inventory of the funding streams that feed Oregon’s behavioral health system and interviewed stakeholders about decision-making and collaboration. “The folks we talked to … are broadly in agreement that the system of funds as a whole is not functioning as it should be,” O’Neil said, summarizing a common view from interviews.
The LPRO presentation organized funds into several categories: Medicaid dollars routed through…
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