OR HB4070

Community mental health programs are relieved of responsibility for emergency psychiatric care costs when state funds allocated to them are exhausted, shifting financial liability away from county programs.

Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations must ensure access to behavioral health treatment in Medicaid is no more burdensome than access to medical or surgical treatment, strengthening mental health parity requirements.

OHA and external quality review organizations are prohibited from penalizing coordinated care organizations based on documents or templates that OHA itself created for CCO use.

Terminology throughout Oregon statutes is updated to replace outdated terms like "mental or emotional disturbances" and "alcoholism or drug dependence" with "mental health or substance use disorders."

Nine federally recognized Indian tribes in Oregon are explicitly included as eligible entities to establish and operate community mental health programs with state assistance, similar to county programs.