EVV Is Coming to Oregon: Here Is What You Need to Know
Electronic Visit Verification is coming to Oregon, and it will change the way that 10,000 Personal Support Workers and as many Direct Support Professionals start and end their work shifts for attendant-care services in a person’s home.
Oregon I/DD Advocates Testify to Senate Committee on eXPRS State Payment System Implementation Concerns
Senator Sara Gelser, Chair of Senate Committee On Human Services and Early ChildhoodOn Tuesday, Oregon Support Services Association's Executive Director Katie Rose testified to a Senate committee regarding the state's roll out and implementation of its payment system, eXPRS.Additional testimony was provided by Margaret Theisen (CEO of the state's largest brokerage Full Access), Chris Burnett (Executive Director of Oregon Rehabilitation Association,) Gary Zenzen and Chris Schwartz (from provider organization Partnerships in Community Living,) Lilia Teninty (Director of Oregon's Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Program,) and Don Erickson (Chief Operating Officer for Oregon's Aging, Disability, and Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities Programs.)
