Session 5 | Learning from Oregon’s success: improving health care while lowering costs

This session looks at Oregon’s primary care transformation experience and explores how systems can improve quality while controlling costs. We examine how Oregon’s reform efforts engaged a broad range of health care practitioners and community leaders in developing and regularly reviewing care standards. This included a rating system to motivate and recognize primary care practices that improved the quality of care. Clinics and practitioners were also provided with hands-on coaching, training and additional funding for mental health and administrative support to meet the care standards. In a review of the first eight years of Oregon’s primary care transformation, there was close to $12 in savings in other parts of the health care system for every dollar invested in primary care. Panelists: Dr. Evan Saulino, Clinical Director, Comagine Health David Ross, MPH, CPH, Director of Population Health, Comagine Health Dr. Elizabeth Powers, Winding Waters Medical Center Moderated by Andrew Earnshaw (Divisions of Family Practice, KB Division) and Véronique Sioufi (BC Policy Solutions)