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Oregon’s coordinated care organizations are only 5 years
old, but already OHA has learned a lot about what’s working and what will need
more work to continue transforming Oregon’s health care system.
OHA recently launched a website and
announced a series of public meetings
to gather input for CCO 2.0, the next phase of coordinated care.
Governor Brown has asked OHA and the Oregon Health Policy
Board to focus on improvements in four key areas:
Learn more about the public meetings and take an
online survey on the CCO 2.0 website.
OHA in late February distributed $3.9
million in grants to support communicable disease prevention and health
equity projects in eight regions around the state. The grants come through the
Legislature’s $5 million public health modernization investment and mark the
first major step toward providing core public health functions and flexibility
to meet new health challenges in every area of Oregon.
The funds for the eight regional partnerships, which cover 34 of Oregon's 36
counties, will help local public health authorities develop new systems
for communicable disease control—with an emphasis on strategies to eliminate
communicable disease-related health disparities. The investment supports
efforts to reduce sexually transmitted infections, prevent the spread of
tuberculosis, improve vaccination rates, and protect vulnerable communities
from diseases like norovirus. Find a full list of the partnerships and regional
projects funded on the OHA website.
More Oregon children are receiving immunizations and dental
sealants to prevent cavities, and more adolescents are going to the doctor’s
office for well-care visits.
These are some of the findings from OHA’s 2017
CCO Incentive Metrics report, which shows the progress coordinated care
organizations (CCOs) have made on eight incentive quality measures from July 2016
to June 2017.
CCOs can earn annual incentive payments for meeting or
exceeding targets on these and several other quality measures.
This report also includes a “deeper dive” section, which
takes a more in-depth look at three measures included in the report: adolescent
well-care visits, effective contraceptive use, and emergency department
utilization.
Findings include:
- Older adolescents are less likely to have an
annual well-care visit
- Young women who have a well-care visit are also more
likely to use effective contraception in most parts of the state, but that is
not true in the tri-county metro area.
- Emergency room use varies by race, with the
highest use among African-Americans and lowest among Asian-Americans.
This is a mid-year report. A report on all 17
incentive measures—which includes incentive payouts—will be released in June.
As of March 5, most of the nearly
4,000 new OHP members affected by Senate Bill 558
(Cover All Kids) have been auto-enrolled in CCOs.
Children and teens
who are now enrolling in OHP will be assigned to CCOs the
same way as all other CCO-enrollable OHP members – through the auto-assignment
process.
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