2025 Regular Session HB 2216

• At the request of: (at the request of House Interim Committee on Behavioral Health and Health Care for Representative Rob Nosse)
• Bill Title: Relating to community health workers; declaring an emergency.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study ways to improve how community health workers are paid. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.5).

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to assess current fee-for-service billing practices and non-fee-for-service payment pathways for community health workers serving medical assistance recipients to identify improvements for ensuring adequate and sustainable funding. Directs the authority to provide technical assistance to coordinated care organizations and community health worker organizations in establishing billing structures or alternative payment pathways for community health worker services.

Sunsets January 2, 2027.

Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

• Fiscal Impact: May Have Fiscal Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Revenue Impact: May Have Revenue Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Current Location: In House Committee
• Current Committee: House Committee On Behavioral Health and Health Care

Subsequent Referral(s)

• Joint Committee On Ways and Means