Beginning next year, CareOregon members will have more access to care in the Legacy Health System than before, according to a spokesperson for Health Share of Oregon.

CareOregon, through the Oregon Health Plan, insures hundreds of thousands of members in the Portland metro area. Now, the Legacy Medical Group will “officially join the CareOregon provider network, serving its members through the Tri-County metro area,” said Stephanie Sever, the Health Share spokesperson.

The move comes amid a broad reshuffling in the area’s highly convoluted Medicaid system.

Health Share of Oregon is one of two so-called coordinated care organizations that contract with the state to run the Oregon Health Plan in the Portland metro area. Health Share is itself something of an umbrella organization, as it s

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