HB 4039
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HB 4039 mandates the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to use a transparent, data-driven process for setting Coordinated Care Organization (CCO) capitation rates, requiring OHA to reconcile base data with CCO submissions, disclose outlier trends, separate costs of new contract requirements from prior years, and provide 90-day notice of fee-for-service rate changes. The bill prohibits OHA from using "quality of life in general" measures to restrict access to medical assistance and requires a cost impact statement before adopting related rules. The enrolled text is substantively identical to the House Amendments version.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The requirements to reconcile OHA data with CCO data, identify outlier trends, and separate costs of new contract requirements from previous years suggest a legislative hypothesis that current rate-setting processes lacked sufficient data verification between agencies and obscured the specific cost impact of contract changes.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Must implement data reconciliation protocols with CCOs, analyze and report outlier trends, separate contract cost impacts, provide 90-day notice of fee-for-service changes, report preliminary rates to the Oregon Health Policy Board including community engagement details, prepare medical assistance cost impact statements for rules, and refrain from using quality-of-life measures in utilization controls.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Must submit data to OHA for reconciliation; receive lists of outlier trends affecting statewide averages and more transparent rate determinations; gain predictability via 90-day notice of fee-for-service changes.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Receives timely reports of preliminary capitation rate determinations that must include community engagement and input from entities serving medical assistance recipients.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Recipients are protected from access restrictions based on broad quality-of-life measures. Providers benefit from 90-day notice of fee-for-service rate changes and potential capitation adjustments when necessary.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
OHA must establish administrative processes for data reconciliation and outlier analysis, increasing operational workload but potentially reducing rate disputes.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
CCOs face new data submission obligations but gain visibility into rate-setting inputs and outlier trends that could stabilize budgeting.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
The prohibition on quality-of-life measures constrains OHA's ability to impose utilization controls that might indirectly affect quality of life, potentially limiting cost-containment tools.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Legislative Revenue Office and Fiscal Office analyses indicate no revenue impact and minimal fiscal impact on state or local government expenditures.
Basis: Stakeholder claim · Sources: Fiscal Impact Statement A; Staff Measure Summary A
Medical Assistance Recipients
Data reconciliation reveals a systemic error where CCOs were underpaid by millions due to unreconciled encounter data; the mandate forces immediate correction, ensuring funds reach intended services and preventing coverage gaps.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
Oregon Health Authority
The quality-of-life prohibition is interpreted so broadly that OHA cannot implement necessary utilization management for high-cost services, leading to budget overruns that force across-the-board cuts to essential care.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
The text permits data-driven rate adjustments and prohibits quality-of-life measures in utilization controls. Ambiguity in defining 'quality of life in general' or 'outlier trends' could enable misuse.
Sources · Enrolled
Mandating transparency and data reconciliation improves rate accuracy and accountability but imposes administrative burdens on OHA and CCOs while constraining OHA's flexibility in rate-setting and utilization management through the quality-of-life prohibition.
Administrative costs and complexity increase for OHA and CCOs due to reconciliation, reporting, and notice requirements.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
The quality-of-life prohibition may limit OHA's ability to use necessary utilization controls, potentially affecting cost containment.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Enrolled
The enrolled text is substantively identical to the House Amendments version. No material changes were made between these versions.
No substantive change identified.
Tradeoff: No change in tradeoffs.
high confidence. Analysis is based on the enrolled bill text and official supporting analyses. No Governor signing letter or detailed testimony transcripts are provided.
Possible effects if adopted; not current bill text.
This proposed amendment would require the Oregon Health Authority to implement a transparent, data-driven methodology for setting coordinated care organization capitation rates, mandate reconciliation of state and CCO data, separate historical from new contractual costs in rate calculations, provide 90 days’ notice for fee-for-service rate changes, and require cost-impact statements for all non-procedural rules. If adopted, it would take effect immediately upon passage but apply to plan years beginning January 1, 2027, shifting administrative burdens to OHA while increasing financial predictability for CCOs.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
Lawmakers may seek to reduce rate-setting disputes and limit subjective or non-clinical factors from influencing payment determinations by mandating transparent data reconciliation, explicit cost separation, and a statutory prohibition on using broad quality-of-life metrics for utilization controls.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must build administrative capacity to reconcile base data with CCO submissions, calculate material cost impacts of contract changes, draft medical assistance cost-impact statements for all non-procedural rules, and report preliminary rates to the Oregon Health Policy Board.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Must submit data for reconciliation and prepare for 90 days’ notice of discretionary fee-for-service rate changes. Gains predictability through transparent methodology but faces compliance costs for data alignment.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Receives preliminary capitation rate determinations that must include documentation of community engagement and input from entities serving medical assistance recipients.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Indirectly affected by potential shifts in CCO financial stability, provider network adequacy, and service coverage resulting from revised rate-setting mechanics.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
OHA will need dedicated staff and systems to perform annual data reconciliation, track material cost impacts of contract restatements, and produce mandatory cost-impact statements before adopting substantive rules.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
CCOs gain advance notice of fee-for-service rate adjustments but must align internal financial and reporting systems with OHA’s reconciliation standards to avoid discrepancies.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The statutory prohibition on considering a quality of life in general measure restricts how OHA can justify utilization controls or payment adjustments, potentially limiting flexibility to address social determinants through financial levers.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The emergency clause accelerates statutory implementation, though rate changes apply to plan years beginning January 1, 2027, creating a gap between enactment and operational effect.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Coordinated Care Organizations and Rural Provider Networks
Standardized data reconciliation eliminates inter-organizational rate disputes, stabilizing CCO cash flows and preventing provider network collapse in rural or high-cost regions by ensuring predictable, accurately calculated capitation payments.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Coordinated Care Organizations and Medical Assistance Recipients
Strict cost-impact requirements and data reconciliation delays trigger rate certification bottlenecks, causing liquidity shortfalls for CCOs that cannot meet submission deadlines and forcing temporary service reductions or provider contract terminations.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The text legally permits data-driven rate adjustments and advance notice requirements, but administrative discretion over what constitutes transparent reconciliation or procedural rules creates avenues for opaque decision-making or regulatory overreach if oversight mechanisms are insufficient.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Enhancing rate-setting transparency and data accountability improves financial predictability for CCOs but imposes administrative burdens on OHA and restricts flexibility to address complex, non-clinical health needs through payment adjustments.
Increased predictability in CCO funding reduces rate-setting disputes and supports stable provider networks.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Mandatory cost-impact statements improve legislative and public oversight of rulemaking costs.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Administrative complexity may delay rate certifications and strain OHA capacity during initial implementation.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Prohibiting quality of life in general measures may limit OHA's ability to use payment structures to address broader social determinants of health.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied proposed amendment text and official staff summaries. No enacted provisions or external litigation are assumed.
If adopted, this amendment would replace the introduced bill with a narrower measure that mandates the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to implement a transparent, data-driven process for setting coordinated care organization (CCO) capitation rates, requires OHA to prepare medical assistance cost impact statements before adopting non-procedural rules, and prohibits OHA from considering a "quality of life in general measure" when determining service standards or imposing utilization controls. Material consequences include predictable CCO funding formulas, reduced administrative mandates for health equity spending, diminished formal public comment channels on rate-setting, and potential underfunding of complex social/health needs if the quality-of-life prohibition is applied rigidly.
Basis: Inferred · Sources: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment; Staff Measure Summary A
Official sources do not state why this measure was proposed.
Sponsor testimony, staff summaries, committee materials, or statutory findings may explain it.
Inferred from cited text; not a stated purpose.
The amendment appears designed to streamline CCO rate-setting by removing mandated health equity expenditure requirements and OHPB public oversight processes, while adding fiscal transparency safeguards (cost impact statements) and limiting subjective criteria in utilization controls. This suggests a legislative intent to prioritize administrative predictability and cost containment over targeted equity investments and formalized public input on rates.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Would be required to establish and maintain a transparent, data-driven capitation rate development process, reconcile its base data with CCO submissions, prepare medical assistance cost impact statements for all non-procedural rules, and report preliminary rates to the Oregon Health Policy Board. OHA would also lose authority to mandate specific health equity spending percentages from CCO global budgets.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Would receive clearer rate-setting methodology, 90-day advance notice for fee-for-service reimbursement changes, and lists of outlier trends affecting statewide averages. CCO governing bodies would retain control over payment allocation, risk, and cost savings. The measure removes the introduced bill's three-year moratorium on health equity spending, restoring flexibility but eliminating guaranteed funding streams for those initiatives.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Would receive preliminary capitation rate determinations including community engagement data but would lose the explicit statutory duty to establish a public review and comment process for OHA's rate development methodology.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Indirectly affected by changes to CCO funding stability, service standards, and utilization controls. The prohibition on considering a "quality of life in general measure" could limit OHA's ability to adjust payment or access rules based on broad community well-being metrics, potentially narrowing the scope of covered services or cost-sharing adjustments.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
OHA must develop and document a transparent algorithmic or data methodology for capitation rates, reconcile discrepancies with CCO-submitted data, and separately identify costs of prior versus new contractual requirements in rate reports.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Rulemaking for medical assistance programs requires a formal cost impact statement estimating economic effects on the state program before adoption, adding administrative steps but increasing fiscal transparency.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
CCOs must anticipate 90-day notice periods for fee-for-service rate changes and may need to adjust internal budgeting or contract restatements accordingly.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Global budget determinations shift allocation and risk decisions to CCO governing bodies, while OHA must consider community health assessments and innovative service delivery when setting rates.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Coordinated Care Organizations and State Budget
OHA successfully standardizes rate-setting across all 15 CCOs using fully transparent, independently verifiable data. Predictable funding eliminates annual rate disputes, allowing CCOs to invest heavily in preventive care and innovative services without fear of retroactive budget cuts, while the cost impact statement requirement prevents unfunded mandates from straining state medical assistance funds.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
High-Need Medical Assistance Recipients
OHA's rate reconciliation process relies on opaque or narrowly defined data sources that systematically undercount complex social and behavioral health needs. The prohibition on considering a "quality of life in general measure" is rigidly applied to deny medically necessary utilization controls or adjust rates for vulnerable populations, while delayed rulemaking due to mandatory cost impact statements leaves CCOs unable to respond to emerging public health crises.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The text legally permits OHA discretion in data reconciliation and rule classification. Weak enforcement of transparency standards or misclassification of substantive policy changes as procedural could enable duty creep or unlawful cost-shifting to CCOs.
Sources · Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Streamlines and clarifies CCO capitation rate-setting while removing mandated health equity spending and OHPB public oversight, trading administrative predictability and cost containment for reduced community-driven accountability and targeted equity investments.
Predictable, transparent funding formulas reduce annual rate disputes and administrative burden on CCOs.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Mandatory cost impact statements increase fiscal transparency and prevent unfunded rulemaking mandates.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Shifting allocation and risk decisions to CCO governing bodies increases organizational autonomy and financial flexibility.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Removal of explicit health equity expenditure mandates eliminates guaranteed funding streams for addressing social determinants of health.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
Loss of formal OHPB public comment channels on rate-setting reduces community oversight and transparency.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
The prohibition on considering a "quality of life in general measure" may prevent necessary adjustments for complex, high-need populations, potentially narrowing service access or underfunding care.
Basis: Inferred · Source: Amendment -1 — proposed amendment
high confidence. Analysis is grounded exclusively in the supplied proposed amendment text and official legislative staff summaries. No enacted provisions or external policy assumptions are used.
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Posted Jan 28, 2026, 3:25 PM PST
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Presession filing record
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed.
LC 194 draft
Date printed on LC draft: January 8, 2026
LC 194 became HB 4039
Mapping document posted: January 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM PST
LC0194_DRAFT_2026_Regular_Session
House Interim Committee on Health Care introduction work session
Committee meeting: January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM PST
HR E
Committee introduction motion
Committee meeting: January 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM PST
A motion was made to adopt the listed legislative concepts as committee bills.
Official vote: 8-0-0
Committee introduction allows consideration; it does not imply every member supported the introduced or final text.
House carrier
Representative Rob Nosse
Third Reading Of House Bills · Version A
Senate carrier
Senator Deb Patterson
Third Reading Of House Measures · Version A
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Chapter 32, (2026 Laws): Effective date March 31, 2026.
Governor signed.
President signed.
Speaker signed.
Third reading. Carried by Patterson. Passed.
Ayes, 28; Excused, 2--Drazan, Girod.
Second reading.
Recommendation: Do pass the A-Eng. bill.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out · Agenda item 2 · Room HR D · Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.
IS_Impact HB 4039 A
Revenue Impact Statement
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 1 · Room HR D · Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.
IS_Impact HB 4039 A
Revenue Impact Statement
Referred to Health Care.
First reading. Referred to President's desk.
Third reading. Carried by Nosse. Passed.
Ayes, 52; Excused, 4--Hartman, Lewis, Sosa, Valderrama; Excused for Business of the House, 4--Diehl, Elmer, Nguyen D, Speaker Fahey.
Second reading.
House Amendments to Introduced bill text posted
Subsequent referral to Ways and Means rescinded by order of the Speaker.
Recommendation: Do pass with amendments, be printed A-Engrossed, and subsequent referral to Ways and Means be rescinded.
Work Session held.
Work Session
Heard and Reported Out with Amendments · Agenda item 1 · Room HR 60 · Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.
IS_Impact HB 4039 1
Revenue Impact Statement
Amendment -1 adopted
Public Hearing held.
Public Hearing
Heard · Agenda item 3 · Room HR 60 · Requires the Oregon Health Authority to develop a transparent and data-driven process for developing capitation rates for coordinated care organizations.
Amendment -1 proposed
Referred to Health Care with subsequent referral to Ways and Means.
First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.
of the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) was established in 2012 through the passage of House Bill 3650 (2011) and Senate Bill 1580 (2012). CCOs provide a range of health services to
of the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) was established in 2012 through the passage of House Bill 3650 (2011) and Senate Bill 1580 (2012). CCOs provide a range of health services to
(OHP) was established in 2012 through the passage of House Bill 3650 (2011) and Senate Bill 1580 (2012). CCOs provide a range of health services to their members, including phy
(OHP) was established in 2012 through the passage of House Bill 3650 (2011) and Senate Bill 1580 (2012). CCOs provide a range of health services to their members, including phy
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