When Dr. John Kitzhaber became Oregon's Governor in January 2011, the state was facing $2 billion deficit in the state's Medicaid budget. Therefore, Kitzhaber, working with a variety of stakeholders and partnership with his top health policy advisors, undertook a multi-year attempt to transform the Medicaid delivery system in the state.
Oregon's Experiment with Coordinated Care Organizations Case Study Solution
At the time, that system consisted of individual managed care organizations for different types of providers; but in July 2012 the state unveiled it’s first coordinated care organizations (CCOs), local "umbrella" groups that would bring together a region's health care providers in one managed care setting. The case details the effort to design, implement, and begin to evaluate CCOs.
After providing background on the history of health care reform in Oregon and the recent passage of the national Affordable Care Act, it reviews the effort to bring together an array of local stakeholders to create a blueprint for CCOs, the subsequent focus on gaining acceptance for CCOs from the state legislature and federal government, and eventually the method of executing CCOs and beginning to judge their impact.
The case reasons in March 2015 when Governor Kitzhaber stepped down amid concerns about the state's attempts to set up Cover Oregon, the organization set up to create the state's medical insurance exchange under the federal Affordable Care Act.
PUBLICATION DATE: August 20, 2015 PRODUCT #: KS1133-HCB-ENG
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