Oregon news from FierceHealthcare
NewsHospitals, payers to team to reduce costs following Medicaid cuts
While Washington, Iowa and Tennessee battle for continued Medicaid reimbursements for emergency care, Oregon is cutting its Medicaid payments to hospitals by 15 percent this month, according to The Read more...
State's hospital costs vary wildly
Ability (or lack thereof) to manage expenses, "varying overhead" and technology investments are just some of the reasons rolled out by hospital executives in Oregon for widely differing costs of Read more...
Risky 'value-based' insurance lowers health costs, but with a gamble
Would you opt for a health insurance plan that offers free care for chronic conditions like heart disease and diabetes if it meant paying through the nose if you ever needed to visit the ER or had Read more...
WA assisted suicide law takes effect, with mixed participation
Washington state's physician-assisted suicide law goes into effect today, with providers taking a decidedly mixed stance as to how and when they'll participate in the process of helping terminal Read more...
Montana becomes third state to legalize physician-assisted suicide
A few weeks ago, a ballot initiative made Washington state the second to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Now, a state court ruling has made Montana the third. (Oregon was the first to do so.) A Read more...
Physician-assisted suicide legalized in WA
In Washington state, Initiative 1000 overwhelmingly passed on election day, allowing doctors to prescribe lethal amounts of medication to patients who have six months or less to live. However, this Read more...
| Press ReleasesOregon Doctors Using gloEMR from gloStream Begin Receiving Federal EHR Incentive PaymentsTROY, Mich., Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- gloStream, maker of gloEMR, gloPM and gloSuite – the only electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management software with Microsoft Office built right Read more >> |
