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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2222
Ordered by the House April 7
Including House Amendments dated April 7
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Behavioral Health and Health Care for Representative Rob Nosse)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act tells OHA to adopt rules for certain providers to enroll in the state
Medicaid program. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
[Digest: The Act tells OHA to create new ways for mobile integrated health care providers to be
paid for their services.(Flesch Readability Score: 68.0).]
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to [create and maintain a registry of mobile integrated
health care providers] prescribe criteria for mobile integrated health care providers to enroll
as providers in the state medical assistance program. Directs the authority to [establish billing
codes and] provide technical support [insubmittingclaims for reimbursement for services provided
by] to mobile integrated health care providers and their employers in applying for enrollment.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to mobile integrated health care; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section:
(a) “Community health worker” has the meaning given that term in ORS 414.025.
(b) “Emergency medical services provider” has the meaning given that term in ORS
682.025.
(c) “Mobile integrated health care” means a coordinated, patient-centered, evidence-
based, holistic model of care using collaborative, interdisciplinary teams to serve patient
needs at the most appropriate level of care at a safe location of the patient’s convenience.
(d) “Mobile integrated health care provider” means a licensed, certified or otherwise au-
thorized emergency medical services provider, community health worker or other health
care provider who provides mobile integrated health care services while acting within the
scope of the provider’s license, certification or other authorization.
(2) The Oregon Health Authority shall:
(a) Prescribe by rule criteria and qualifications for mobile integrated health care provid-
ers to enroll as providers in the state medical assistance program; and
(b) Provide technical support to mobile integrated health care providers and their em-
ployers in applying for enrollment.
(3) Nothing in this section expands the health services that are covered under the state
medical assistance program.
SECTION 2. (1) In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appro-
priated to the Oregon Health Authority, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 2699 A-Eng. HB 2222
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General Fund, the amount of $_______, which may be expended for carrying out the pro-
visions of section 1 of this 2025 Act.
(2) The authority shall use $_______ of the amount appropriated under subsection (1) of
this section for the authority’s initial implementation and management of the authority’s
responsibilities under section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
July 1, 2025.
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