... organizations (CCOs) and the state. Equally important, the Oregon experiment mandates coverage of medical, behavioral, and dental health care using flexible coverage, with the locus of delivery innovation focused at the individual CCO level and with financial consequences for quality-of-care metrics...

...Anna Marie Chang; Deborah J. Cohen; Dennis McCarty; Traci Rieckmann; K. John McConnell Abstract In the Point article, Steven W. Howard et al. argue that the Oregon Health Authority's coordinated care organizations (CCOs) are different from traditional Medicaid managed care organizations in ways...

...Steven W. Howard; Stephanie L. Bernell; Jangho Yoon; Jeff Luck; Claire M. Ranit Abstract To control Medicaid costs, improve quality, and drive community engagement, the Oregon Health Authority introduced a new system of coordinated care organizations (CCOs). While CCOs resemble traditional Medicaid...

... , Goldberg Bruce , and McConnell K. John . 2016 . “ New Rules for Medicaid Managed Care—Do They Undermine Payment Reform? ” Healthcare 4 , no. 4 : 274 – 76 . OHA (Oregon Health Authority) . 2018 . “ CCO 2.0 Recommendations of the Oregon Health Policy Board .” Portland, OR : Oregon...

...Steven W. Howard; Stephanie L. Bernell; Jangho Yoon; Jeff Luck Abstract Continuing its path of Medicaid program innovation, Oregon recently embarked on a major reform that gives regional coordinated care organizations (CCOs) global budgets and accountability for the physical, behavioral, and dental...

... of behavioral health care, CCOs have made clear progress in many areas and should be considered if not yet successful then at least viable as a health care innovation. In the Point essay, Steven W. Howard and colleagues present further information about how CCOs will actually work. Arguing that the CCOs...

... of emergency department use (Pollack 2014 ; Taubman et al. 2014 . Delivery system innovations receive less attention than do issues of apparent rationing or expanded Medicaid access. Yet these are scarcely less important. Oregon's coordinated care organizations (CCOs) represent one of the nation's most...

.... State government in Oregon has established Medicaid-based coordinated care organizations (CCOs) and is extending them first to public employees/retirees and next to the ACA marketplace, with the ultimate aim to have all insurers and residents in the state adopt the coordinated care model. CCOs—relying...

... and Institutions: US Health Policy Reform and the Surprising Silence of Big Business, 1:5–34 Sorenson, Corinna, Michael K. Gusmano, and Adam Oliver. The Politics of Comparative Effectiveness Research: Lessons from Recent History, 1:139–70 Stecker, Eric C. Point-Counterpoint . Why the Oregon CCO Experiment...