Health prices have been shooting faster than inflation pretty much everywhere. Portland-based Legacy says it needs to raise prices still further because of a 47% rise in its own costs between 2021 and 2025.

One of Oregon’s largest health insurance plans announced in recent days it might be going up for sale but, in the meantime, it still has quite a bit of cleaning up to do.

The deal would mean minimum 21.5% raises over a roughly four year span. And some workers would get far more.

Providence Health Plan leaders were already outsourcing some core functions. The vast majority of the plan’s members are in Oregon.

The Marion County District Attorney says she has grown increasingly concerned in recent years that the state’s flagship psychiatric hospital “cannot meet the challenge of the moment.”

The trusty, locking butane torch is a potent, focussed heat source—reliable even in the wind. Some increasingly see it as a public health scourge.

The plan, while largely conceptual, offers some insight into the thinking inside the state agency responsible for Oregonians’ health outcomes.

A Southeast Portland Trader Joe’s will likely remain closed for weeks, according to a state official, as a contractor removes and decontaminates floor material found to contain asbestos.

Hospitals in the state more than doubled their net assets between 2013 and 2023.

On Jan. 1, some 125,000 Oregonians entered a new health insurance epoch. Or so they were told.