HITOC CCO 2.0 Policy Concept Development (2018)

Oregon’s Health Information Technology Oversight Council (HITOC) wants to hear your thoughts!

In summer of 2018, OHA’s Office of Health Information Technology hosted a series of ad hoc HITOC-sponsored meetings about health information technology (HIT) policy options for CCO 2.0, the next phase for Oregon’s Medicaid Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs).

Please see the Public Meetings page for meeting materials and recordings (meetings were held 6/27/2018 and 7/19/2018).

CCO 2.0 HIT Policy Options Materials:

• HIT Proposed Policy Options Crossmap
• Resources and HIT Proposed Policy Options Overview
  
• HIT Proposed Policy Options Slides
• HIT Proposed Policy Options Public Comments Overview
• HITOC Chair Letter to OHPB - May 2018

These meetings are an opportunity for organizations, providers, health care consumers, CCOs, and others across the state to learn about how the HIT policy options for CCOs are expected to improve the state’s coordinated care model and to provide input on those policy options.

You can find recordings of our public meetings at our Public Meetings page. Simply navigate to the meeting you'd like to listen to, and select "Recording" under "Documents."

About CCO 2.0

The end of the first five-year contracts with CCOs marks an opportunity for the Oregon Health Policy Board to work with stakeholders to improve the services that 1 million Oregonians receive through the Oregon Health Plan. CCOs are community-governed organizations that bring together physical, mental health, addiction medicine, and dental health providers to coordinate care for people on the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid). Since 2012, Oregon’s coordinated care model has saved taxpayers an estimated $2.2 billion, reduced unnecessary emergency department visits, and improved preventive care for children and adults.

The policy options focus on four priority improvement areas identified by Governor Kate Brown:

• Maintain sustainable cost growth.
• Increase value-based payments that pay for performance.
• Focus on social determinants of health and equity.
• Improve the behavioral health system.

Although HIT is not called out specifically in the Governor’s priority improvement areas, HIT components, such as supporting providers’ electronic health records and ability to exchange health information to coordinate care, are foundational for these improvements to be successful.  Today’s CCOs are supporting HIT components in several ways—OHA’s HIT policy options for CCO 2.0 build on these efforts and increase expectations for CCOs to ensure that the Governor’s priorities can be effectively achieved.

OHA will gather public input on the policy options, including the HIT policy options, throughout the summer, and the Oregon Health Policy Board will adopt final recommendations this fall. Coordinated care contracts for 2020-2025 are expected to be awarded in summer 2019. You can learn more about this next phase at the CC0 2.0 webpage.

Everyone has a right to know about and use Oregon Health Authority (OHA) programs and services. OHA provides free help. Some examples of the free help OHA can provide are:

• Sign language and spoken language interpreters
• Written materials in other languages
• Braille
• Large print
• Audio and other formats

If you need help or have questions, please contact Jenna Robinson at 503-373-7859, 711 TTY, or OHIT.Info@dhsoha.state.or.us at least 48 hours before the meeting. OHA will make every effort to provide services for requests made closer to the meeting.