SB607 • 2025

Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Senator Campos
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state.

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study how to increase the rates at which FQHCs are reimbursed for mental health services.

What This Bill Does

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study how to increase the rates at which FQHCs are reimbursed for mental health services.
(Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state.
Requires the authority to report to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2026.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Early Childhood and Behavioral Health.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells OHA to study how to increase the rates at which FQHCs are reimbursed for mental health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state. Requires the authority to report to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to behavioral health services provided by federally qualified health centers.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 607
Sponsored by Senator CAMPOS (Presession filed.)
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 study how to increase the rates at which FQHCs are reimbursed
for mental health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to study alternative payment methodologies to improve
access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state. Requires the au-
thority to report to the Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2026.
Sunsets on January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to behavioral health services provided by federally qualified health centers.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) As used in this section, “coordinated care organization” and “medical
assistance” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 414.025.
(2) The Oregon Health Authority shall study alternative payment methodologies to im-
prove access to behavioral health care in federally qualified health centers in this state. In
conducting the study, the authority shall identify strategies for increasing reimbursement
rates for behavioral health services provided by federally qualified health centers to medical
assistance recipients to rates that are no less than the rates paid by coordinated care or-
ganizations.
(3) The authority shall submit a report, in the manner provided by ORS 192.245, and may
include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to health no later than September 30, 2026.
SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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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