HB3494 • 2025

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provided to medical assistance recipients.

Healthcare

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Representative Diehl,, Mannix
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In House Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provided to medical assistance recipients.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to set minimum rates for reimbursing providers of mental health and SUD treatment.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHA to set minimum rates for reimbursing providers of mental health and SUD treatment.
(Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provided to medical assistance recipients.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 House
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-02-06 House
Referred to Behavioral Health and Health Care.
2025-02-04 House
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to set minimum rates for reimbursing providers of mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral health services provided to medical assistance recipients.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Relating to: Relating to medical assistance reimbursement of behavioral health services; prescribing an effective date.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3494
Sponsored by Representatives DIEHL, MANNIX
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 tells OHA to set minimum rates for reimbursing providers of mental health and
SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to establish minimum reimbursement rates for behavioral
health services provided to medical assistance recipients.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to medical assistance reimbursement of behavioral health services; amending ORS 414.782;
and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 414.782 is amended to read:
414.782. (1) As used in this section, “coordinated care organization” and “medical assist-
ance” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 414.025.
(2) The Oregon Health Authority, with the advice of stakeholders and the Alcohol and Drug
Policy Commission, [ may] shall establish minimum rates of reimbursement paid by the authority or
coordinated care organizations to [ addiction] behavioral health treatment providers to ensure
medical assistance recipients’ access, without delay, to all modalities of [ addiction treatment ] be-
havioral health services within each geographic region of this state.
(3) A coordinated care organization shall reimburse both in-network and out-of-network
behavioral health treatment providers at the rates established under subsection (2) of this
section.
SECTION 2. 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.
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.
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