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Keep abreast of national and state mental healthcare reform.
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Latest GEI/PSRB Adjudication Resources: Implementation of HB 3100 & SB 420
Implementation Slideshow & Bill Texts
Sample Court Commitment Orders, CR Form
Registry of Certified Forensic Evaluators
Forensic Evaluator Certification Information (Oregon Health Authority)
Training Events
May 10 Multnomah County Defense Attorneys Association, Portland
Multnomah County District Attorneys Association, Portland
May 21 Hood River County Judges, DA's, defenders, and community mental
health, 10:00a.m.-12:00p.m, Mid-Columbia Center for Living,
1610 Woods Court, Hood River
May 23 Jackson County Judges, DA's, defenders, and community mental
health, Medford
May 25 Benton County Judges, DA's, defenders, and community mental health, Corvallis
June 1 Webinar
June 14 Oregon Defense Attorneys Association Annual Conference
August 16 Oregon District Attorneys Association Annual Conference
Meetings with Linn County and Clackamas County judges, DA's, defenders, and community mental health programs to be announced.
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First Wave CCO Applicants Posted to OHA Website, Dates for Community Presentations
| AllCare Health Plan |
Curry, Josephine, Jackson, Douglas (partial) |
| Cascade Health Alliance |
Klamath (partial) |
| Columbia Pacific Coordinated Care Organization, LLC |
Clatsop, Columbia, Coos (partial), Douglas (partial), Hood River, Tillamook, Wasco |
| Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization |
Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, Wheeler (partial) |
| FamilyCare |
Clackamas, Marion (partial), Multnomah, Washington |
| Eastern Oregon Health Authority |
Umatilla, Morrow |
| Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc |
Klamath, Deschutes (partial) |
| Intercommunity Health Network Coordinated Care Organization |
Benton, Lincoln, Linn |
| PacificSource Central Oregon |
Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson, Klamath (partial), Harney, Grant, Lake (partial), Wheeler (pending) |
| Trillium Community Health Plan |
Lane |
| Tri-County Medicaid Collaborative |
Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington |
| Umpqua Health Alliance |
Douglas |
| Western Oregon Advanced Health |
Curry, Coos, Douglas (partial) |
| WVP Health Authority |
Marion, Polk |
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Regence Plan Discontinuation Highlights the Lack of Mental Health Parity in Oregon
What are the differences in Plus and Core plans?
The Plus plans that are being discontinued have richer benefits. For example:
- Core plans have a $35 office co-pay versus $25 with Plus
- Core plans have a $3,500 prescription medicine deductible per member per year for brand-name drugs compared to no prescription deductible for Plus plans. (However, the Rx deductible is waived for self-administered chemotherapy medications.)
- Core plans have no mental health benefit versus a limited benefit with the Plus plans. (Certain mental health drugs are covered, however.) more...
Congratulations, Oregon.
Oregon has been identified as one of seven 'regions' selected by CMS for its Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative
The CMS Innovation Center has selected seven geographic markets to carry out the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, a new multi-payer approach that aims to strengthen the primary care system while achieving better health care and lower costs through improvement. These markets were selected based on a pool of applicants, which include private health plans, state Medicaid agencies, and employers, that proposed to pay for and support comprehensive primary care coordination in partnership with Medicare.
The markets represent a diverse range of regions spanning both coasts, the midwest and south, and rural and urban communities. The selected markets are:
- Arkansas: Statewide
- Colorado: Statewide
- New Jersey: Statewide
- New York: Capital District-Hudson Valley Region
- Ohio: Cincinnati-Dayton Region
- Oklahoma: Greater Tulsa Region
- Oregon: Statewide
Once the participating payers in each market have agreed to the terms and conditions to participate in the initiative by entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with CMS, the Innovation Center will release the application for primary care practices to participate in each market. Approximately 75 primary care practices will be selected to participate in the initiative in each designated market.
These practices will receive a new care management fee on behalf of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries to support enhanced primary care services for their patients. The enhanced services will include: improved care coordination; increasing patients’ access to care; delivering preventive care; engaging patients and caregivers in managing their own care, and providing individualized, enhanced care for patients living with multiple chronic diseases and higher needs.
More information on these markets and the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative is available at innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/comprehensive-Primary-Care-Initiative.
The CMS Innovation Center was created by the Affordable Care Act to test innovative payment and service delivery models that have the potential to reduce program expenditures while preserving or enhancing the quality of care. More info at innovation.cms.gov
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Communities Across Oregon Come Together to Serve Military Veterans as the VA Continues to Neglect Mental Health
In Oregon
“There is no real second‐chance to properly reintegrate a veteran back into his or her community. The social costs of missing this chance are enormous, last decades and are exponentially more expensive than spending resources up front to help these veterans reintegrate into their communities and homes after their military experiences. Oregon can be proud that it has the best reintegration team in the nation and that everyone involved with veterans is working hard to make it even better.”
- Task Force on Veterans’ Reintegration, Final Report, October 2010
Oregon National Guard Deployment Timelines
Recently Deployed Returned
B/1-168 AV June 2011
3-116 CAV September 2011
F/145 September 2011
A/641 AV October 2011
1249 EN HHC December 2011
1249 EN FSC December 2011
Currently Deployed Return On/About
173 FW March 2012
1186 MP September 2012
Deploying FY 2012 Mobilized On/About
C/7-158 (FMST) March 2012
115 MPAD June 2012
125 STS August 2012
3670 MAINT November 2012
Communities Respond
Across Oregon, Community Mental Health Programs are coordinating with VA medical centers and clinics, County Veterans Services Officers, the Oregon National Guard's Joint Transition Assistance Program team and others to care for veterans and their families. Click here to find a Reintegration Summit happening near you.
At the state level, the Association continues to work with the Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs and our congressional delegation to improve VA and Tricare services and care coordination for our veterans and their families. A recent report by the U.S. Inspector General highlights the neglect on the part of the Veterans Administration to understand and meet the mental health needs of veterans.
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