Dr. Allen Douma to Lead Oregon State Health Plan

June 26, 2006 Dr. Allen Douma to Lead Oregon State Health Plan On June 1, 2006, Allen Douma, M.D., began serving as state Medicaid director for the Oregon Health Plan. Dr. Douma plans to develop partnerships between public agencies and health care providers to make health care more efficient. Introduced in the 1990s, the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) has been chronically under funded for the past ten years, which has eliminated many treatments and reduced the number of low-income clients who were covered. Despite the reductions, the OHP is the largest purchaser of health care in the state . . .