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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2223
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 as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act requires CCOs to contract with providers of services to which there is limited
access. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6).
Requires coordinated care organizations to contract with providers outside of a particular ge-
ographic area when the area has limited access to a medical assistance care or service.Directs the
Oregon Health Authority to identify the medical assistance care or services to which there is lim-
ited access.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to coordinated care organizations; creating new provisions; amending ORS 414.609; and
prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 414.609, as amended by section 10, chapter 70, Oregon Laws 2024, is amended
toread:
414.609. (1) A coordinated care organization that contracts with the Oregon Health Authority
must maintain a network of providers, including but not limited to addiction treatment providers,
sufficient in numbers and areas of practice and geographically distributed in a manner to ensure
that the health services provided under the contract are reasonably accessible to members.
(2)(a) In any geographic area served by a coordinated care organization where the au-
thority identifies a medical assistance care or service for which there is limited access, the
coordinated care organization shall contract with a number of providers of the care or ser-
vice that are located outside of the geographic area sufficient to satisfy the requirements
of subsection (1) of this section.
(b) The authority shall identify the medical assistance care or services to which there is
limited access in each geographic area served by one or more coordinated care organizations
in this state, including but not limited to geographic areas where there is limited access to
acute psychiatric care for children and for adolescents.
[(2)] (3) A member may transfer from one organization to another organization no more than
once during each enrollment period.
SECTION 2.The amendments to ORS 414.609 by section 1 of this 2025 Act apply to con-
tracts between a coordinated care organization and the Oregon Health Authority entered
into, amended or renewed on or after the operative date specified in section 3 of this 2025
Act.
SECTION 3. (1) The amendments to ORS 414.609 by section 1 of this 2025 Act become
operative on January 1, 2026.
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 2731 HB2223
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(2) The Oregon Health Authority may take any action before the operative date specified
in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the authority to exercise, on and
after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all of the duties, functions
and powers conferred on the authority by the amendments to ORS 414.609 by section 1 of this
2025Act.
SECTION 4. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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