Oregon will pay insurers more to run Medicaid program after several threaten to pull out

The Kotek administration has pumped up its offers intended to satisfy the organizations that oversee care for more than 1 million low-income people enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan.

But it’s unclear if that will be enough to keep the groups from walking away from the state’s Medicaid-funded managed care system on January 1 — as some of their leaders reportedly have threatened.

The new rates represent the latest development in a closely watched situation