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Straining To Contain Ballooning Expenses, Oregon Hospitals Are Gobbling Up Cash
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (759+ words) From a recent wave of financial reports, a remarkable statistic stands out: In 2015, hospitals in Oregon reported spending just over $10 billion on their operations. A decade later, those expenses had more than doubled—to $22 billion. Hospital revenue has been rising…...
Medicaid Shortfall Follows Decade-Long Growth in State Spending
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (1114+ words) Over the past decade, the growth in Oregon’s total state government spending has far outpaced inflation and population growth. That analysis comes from a new tool built by the Oregon Journalism Project. Called Civic Ledger, the tool allows users to…...
Home Forward Said Its Budget Shortfall Had Improved. That Was Wrong, Agency Now Says.
2+ week, 2+ day ago (267+ words) After announcing that its $30 million budget deficit had been slashed in half earlier this year thanks to better-than-expected federal funding, the city of Portland’s housing authority last week said it had miscalculated the numbers. The deficit, Home Forward interim executive…...
Murmurs: Health Insurers Seek Huge Price Hike
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1189+ words) Willamette Week Murmurs: Health Insurers Seek Huge Price Hike In other news: Meieran enters county chair race. HEALTH INSURERS SEEK HUGE PRICE HIKE: Oregonians will have fewer options for health insurance plans in 2027, and the plans that remain are seeking…...
Oregon Releases Provisional 2027 Health Insurance Prices, And They’re Not Pretty
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (544+ words) Oregonians will have fewer options for health insurance plans in 2027, and the plans that remain are seeking to raise prices at a rate with no recent precedent. That’s according to data released Monday by Oregon regulators, showing that insurers of…...
Portland-Based Providence Health Plan To Stop Offering Most Insurance Plans At End of Year
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (508+ words) The Providence Health Plan said Wednesday that it would stop offering most of its insurance products by the year’s end, heralding the near-complete dissolution of a longtime stalwart of Oregon’s private health insurance marketplace. “We have determined that the most…...
Oregon’s Largest Home Health Care Network Could Soon Be Under New, Private Equity-Backed Management
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (563+ words) The Oregon Health Authority cleared the way on Friday for a private equity-backed company to take over management of the state’s largest home health and hospice care network. The major, multistate deal between Providence Health & Services and Compassus has been…...
In Warning Shot, Oregon Insurance Regulators Oust Alternative Health Plan From the State
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (466+ words) Oregon regulators said Monday that they have moved to ban ClearShare Health from the state, alleging the “health share” is in fact health insurance—and that it has been offering that health insurance here without a license. The move comes…...
Legacy Health’s Fight With Insurance Company Airs a Theme: Up, Up, With Medical Costs
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (401+ words) Willamette Week is funded by you, our readers. Help us keep fearless local reporting free for everyone. Give today to our Spring Member Drive — every dollar counts. Health care prices have been spiraling skyward in recent years but, like many…...
Washington State Ousted This Health Insurance Lookalike. In Oregon, It Carries On.
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (796+ words) Founded in late 2018, the St. George, Utah-based group has grown rapidly in recent years, with reported annual revenue jumping tenfold from 2020 to 2024—the latest year on record—to $93 million. It reports 1,222 members in Oregon and 75,000 members nationwide, spanning nearly every…...