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Wednesday, November 8, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Two motorists killed
in Highway 20 crash
Two motorists lost their
lives on Thursday, November
2, in a head-on crash on
Highway 20 near the Santiam
Pass summit.
Oregon State Police
reported that at approxi-
mately 1:15 p.m., OSP
Troopers and emergency
personnel responded to
the report of a two-vehicle
crash on Highway 20 near
milepost 81, just east of the
summit.
Investigation revealed
a 2003 Ford van towing a
trailer traveling eastbound
on Highway 20 crossed the
double centerline and struck
a westbound 2010 Subaru
Legacy head-on. The driver
of the Subaru, Linda A.
Davis, age 70, of Stayton,
was pronounced dead at
the scene. The driver of the
Ford, a 47-year-old male,
was also pronounced dead.
His identity is still being
withheld at this time, as
his family has not yet been
located.
Highway 20 was com-
pletely closed for about
one hour until one alternat-
ing lane was opened for
traffic.
SPEAKER: Event
sponsored by
Citizens4Community
Continued from page 3
do. In addition, Carrick will
facilitate discovering what
“community” can look like
when it is redefined through
the lens of courage, vulner-
ability, and connection. This
customized experience prom-
ises to deliver new, hope-
filled insights for everyone
in community.
“Over the eons, commu-
nity has created what people
need to thrive,” Carrick said.
“And yet in our global, digi-
tal, politicized, and polarized
real world, meaningful con-
nection in community is get-
ting harder and harder to cre-
ate and enjoy. We feel alone,
but we isolate. We have opin-
ions, but we hold them back.
We are afraid, but crave
being with other people.”
Over the eons,
community has
created what people
need to thrive.
— Moe Carrick
Carrick queries, what will
it take for individuals to turn
meaningfully again “toward
the evolutionary elixir of
community” to provide com-
fort, compassion, inspiration,
and challenge?
The evening will conclude
with an experiential music
event lead by Carrick and her
son.
According to the
Moementum website,
Carrick has a background
of consulting with Fortune
100 companies, academic
and institutional learning,
Oregon overpays almost $75 million
PORTLAND (AP) — The
state wrongly paid Oregon
healthcare organizations
nearly $75 million in federal
Medicaid money from 2014
to 2016, and might have to
repay all of it, the Oregon
Health Authority said.
New chief financial offi-
cer Laura Robison told The
Oregonian/OregonLive that
the overpayments occurred
because the health agency
paid healthcare organizations
it contracted with to serve cer-
tain senior Medicaid patients
inaccurate, excessively high
rates.
The revelation comes
about three months after
Gov. Kate Brown fired Lynne
Saxton as director of the
health authority. The newspa-
per reports Saxton and other
top officials knew about the
overpayments, but withheld
the information.
The governor wasn’t told
of the problem until Oct. 17,
and finds that unacceptable,
said her spokesman, Chris
Pair.
The incorrect payments
occurred in the cases of
patients old enough to qual-
ify for Medicare and poor
enough or otherwise quali-
fied for Medicaid, Robison
said. Medicare pays first
and should have been used
to cover most costs. Instead,
Oregon charged the federal
government — and paid
Oregon firms contracted
to manage those patients’
Medicaid services — as much
as if those patients had had no
other insurance.
Federal officials caught the
problem in 2016 and required
Oregon to repay $10 million,
according to public records
released by the state. Now, it
appears Oregon may have to
repay the balance, Robison
said. It might choose to try
and recover some or all of the
money from the healthcare
agencies formed to admin-
ister Medicaid payments,
known as coordinated care
organizations.
In another problem,
Robison said the agency
also paid healthcare con-
tractors an undetermined
amount to provide healthcare
to people who’d been retro-
actively deemed ineligible
for Medicaid. She said the
agency is still trying to deter-
mine how much money was
wrongly dispensed.
I’ve made it a priority
to get these fully scoped
and resolved as
soon as possible.
— Laura Robison
“These issues landed on
my desk essentially on my
arrival at (the Oregon Health
Authority), and I’ve made it
a priority to get these fully
scoped and resolved as soon
as possible,” Robison said.
The fi x is . . .
PHOTO PROVIDED
Moe Carrick will be the presenter
at the Soup and Civility program.
keynote addresses, author-
ship, strategic partnering,
and facilitation. In sponsor-
ships and pro-bono services,
Moementum donates almost
one-third of its total revenues
to Bend-area organizations.
In 2016, Carrick was
named Woman of the Year
by the Bend Chamber of
Commerce; and on October
5, 2017, Moementum earned
t h e C h a m b e r ’s S A G E
Business Award for Equity.
Having worked for many
years in the outdoor educa-
tion arena, she still enjoys
being outside in the sur-
rounding Central Oregon
countryside running, rid-
ing horses, working in the
garden, and walking. In
addition to her work life,
she has managed to be the
primary breadwinner and
full-time mom for her three
children.
The community-building
and networking meal is free
to all, thanks to donations
of food and beverages from
Ray’s Food Place and Sisters
Coffee Company. All are wel-
come to attend and encour-
aged to RSVP at www.citi
z e n s 4 c o m m u n i t y. c o m /
events to guarantee there is
enough food for the “soup
and civility” portion of the
evening.
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