Home health and hospice nurses and clinicians including physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists, among others, provide care to patients in their homes after they get out of the hospital, or near the end of their lives. Currently, nurses cannot be paid per patient visit, but clinicians can be. Pay-per-visit compensation places significant pressure on healthcare workers to meet daily patient quotas, usually resulting in rushed or shortened visits and worse patient care. 

This bill does two things: 

• It adds all home health and hospice clinicians to the existing statutes prohibiting home health and hospice nurses from being paid per visit.
• It expands the definition of “pay per visit” to include any condition of employment that directly or indirectly relates to the number of patients cared for. That means that healthcare clinicians cannot be disciplined for not meeting metrics. 

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For further questions please reach out to ONA Political & Legislative Organizer Russell Lum at Lum@OregonRN.org.