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HB 4070STATE · OregonIntroduced

Relating to health care; and prescribing an effective date.

Voted 4/6/2026View source

Summary

</b> </i>] Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment. Prohibits the authority or a contracted external quality review organization, under certain circumstances, from making a negative finding about or imposing a penalty on a coordinated care organization based on documents or templates created by the authority for use by a coordinated care organization. Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology. <b>Modifies the types of providers that may be reimbursed in the state medical assistance program for the cost of health services delivered using telemedicine. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.</b>

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How representatives voted

67 yea·1 nay·21 other

Docket history

Action history

  1. 4/6/2026Chapter 44, (2026 Laws): Effective date June 5, 2026.
  2. 3/31/2026Governor signed.
  3. 3/6/2026President signed.
  4. 3/5/2026Speaker signed.
  5. 3/4/2026House concurred in Senate amendments and repassed bill.
  6. 3/3/2026Third reading. Carried by Anderson. Passed.
  7. 3/2/2026Second reading.
  8. 2/27/2026Recommendation: Do pass with amendments to the A-Eng. bill. (Printed B-Eng.)
  9. 2/26/2026Public Hearing and Work Session held.
  10. 2/24/2026Public Hearing held.