The Oregon Plan

Retracing the Oregon trail: the experience of rationing and the Oregon health plan.

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Sullivan made the right choice in rejecting the Oregon plan.

The individual and program impacts of eliminating Medicaid dental benefits in the Oregon Health Plan.

OBJECTIVES We determined how elimination of dental benefits among adult Medicaid beneficiaries in Oregon affected their access to dental care, Medicaid expenditures, and use of medical settings for dental services. METHODS We used a natural experimental design using Medicaid claims data (n = 22 833) before and after Medicaid dental benefits were eliminated in Oregon in 2003 and survey data fo...

The Oregon Health Plan--lessons for the nation. First of two parts.

Under Oregon’s 1989 legislative package, the Medicaid portion of the Oregon Health Plan was only one of its two critical pieces. The other was the requirement that employers provide insurance to employees, with the prioritized list as the minimal benefit package. Small businesses lobbied for the repeal of this part of the legislation, and on January 1, 1996, it died. Gone was the hope of nearly...

Oregon Health Plan Integration And Its Discontents : Substance Abuse Treatment In The Katherine

With the creation of the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) in 1994, Oregon placed its Medicaid program under a managed care system. This paper examines the managed care practices of seven health plans serving OHP enrollees between 1996 and 1998. Results indicated that the original vision of integrating substance abuse treatment services with physical care for OHP enrollees evolved into a multilayered, c...