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States consider assisted-suicide laws
Peter Goodwin, a family physician who campaigned for the passage of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act in 1994, used the law to end his own battle with a terminal brain disease Sunday, the Oregonion
State coordinated care Medicaid model to save $1.5 trillion
Oregon is looking to develop its own accountable care organizations. Gov. John Kitzhaber last month signed a law that will create local "coordinated care organizations" focused on the state's 600,000
Concierge practice: 5 legal issues to address
The tougher running a traditional medical practice becomes, the stronger the appeal of providing concierge or retainer-based medicine may be to some doctors. Setting aside recent criticisms of the
Hospitals, 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
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
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
34 providers in Pacific Northwest receive EMR grants
A public-private partnership in the Pacific Northwest has chosen 34 mostly small and rural healthcare providers to receive up to $20,000 each to help purchase EMRs and other health IT. Many of the
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
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
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
