Oregon Launches $25 Million Partnership With Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations To Expand Youth Behavioral Health Services  

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced a $25 million partnership with the state’s Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) to fund four projects that expand youth behavioral health services. The partnership was a response to unanticipated profits realized by CCOs during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was set up as a Memorandum of Understanding between the CCOs, provider organizations, and the Oregon Health Authority. 

The funding will be distributed as follows:;

$13.2 million to the Trillium Family Services Project, located in the Portland Metro area, to spur new psychiatric residential treatment services (PRTS) capacity.;

$7.5 million to . . .