Oregon CCOs Report ER Use By People With SPMI Double Rate Of Other CCO Members

Oregon’s Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) report that CCO members with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) use the ED at more than double the rate of members overall. To address the disparity, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Metrics and Scoring Committee has added ED use among CCO members with SPMI as a CCO incentive measure.

The statistics were reported in “Oregon’s Health System Transformation Quarterly Legislative Report, Q4 2016” by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). The 2016 fourth-quarter legislative report details the state’s health system transformation efforts including an update on the Oregon Health Plan . . .