Oregon legislation · 2026 Legislative Measures
Oregon HB4070: Relating to health care; and prescribing an effective date.
Status: Chaptered, April 6, 2026
Digest: The Act makes changes to laws about mental health and substance use disorder treatment. The Act changes a law about quality reviews of CCOs. The Act says who can be reimbursed for telehealth services. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.9). [ Digest: The Act makes changes to laws relating to mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). ] Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment. Prohibits the authority or a contracted external quality review organization, under certain circumstances, from making a negative finding about or imposing a penalty on a coordinated care organization based on documents or templates created by the authority for use by a coordinated care organization. Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology. Modifies the types of providers that may be reimbursed in the state medical assistance program for the cost of health services delivered using telemedicine. Becomes operative on January 1, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
What the bill says
From the enrolled text, March 4, 2026:
83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2026 Regular Session House Bill 4070 Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Behavioral Health for Representative Hai Pham) CHAPTER ................................................. Relating to health care; creating new provisions; amending ORS 137.227, 137.228, 414.025, 414.595, 414.723, 414.780, 430.010, 430.021, 430.215, 430.256, 430.265, 430.306, 430.342, 430.345, 430.350, 430.359, 430.362, 430.364, 430.366, 430.380, 430.381, 430.401, 430.560, 430.610, 430.627, 430.630, 430.637, 430.640, 430.644, 430.646, 430.695, 430.705, 430.709, 430.905, 471.810, 675.523, 743A.012 and 743A.168; repealing ORS 430.315, 430.368, 430.565 and 430.634; and prescribing an effective date. SECTION 1. ORS 414.780 is amended to read: 414.780. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Behavioral health coverage" means mental health treatment and services and substance use disorder treatment or services reimbursed by a coordinated care organization. (b) "Coordinated care organization" has the meaning given that term in ORS 414.025. (c) "Mental health treatment and services" means the treatment of or services provided to address any condition or disorder that falls under any of the diagnostic categories listed in the mental disorders section of the current edition of or (B) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. (d) "Nonquantitative treatment limitation" means a limitation that is not expressed numerically but otherwise limits the scope or duration of behavioral health coverage, such as medical necessity …