My grandmother would store wads of cash in her box springs because, as a child of the Great Depression, she couldn’t trust the banks. I see my children now worried about being indoors without masks. My six-year old isn’t able to feel fully comfortable eating inside a restaurant, even one with open-air ventilation, social distancing, and reduced occupancy. I suspect she’s not alone. The traumas we experience together can linger with us longer than we think.
COVID isn’t going away. It’s endemic and will remain with us. So, we should be intentional about trusting our vaccines and our mitigation strategies while also taking appropriate risks to re-enter normal social settings and engagements.
The Orion Health solution will provide a single, consolidated HIE to connect the entire state and allow health information to flow seamlessly to and from
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organizations and individuals in Oklahoma. The OHCA HIE team, along with Orion Health and its partners, will work with other state agencies, private providers, HIEs and health technology companies to ensure a robust environment for healthcare innovation in Oklahoma.
The HIE is intended to meet the needs of end-users, allowing providers and their patients, hospitals and health systems, purchasers and payers, state health agencies and local health departments, health information business associates, as well as an increasingly inclusive ecosystem of human service
the Washington state legislature rejected a bill designed to limit youth participation in sports based on their gender as assigned on a birth certificate and passed the new Gender Affirming Treatment Act.
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As some states make headlines for so-called “anti-trans” laws, the Washington state legislature rejected a bill designed to limit youth participation in sports based on their gender as assigned on a birth certificate
and passed the new Gender Affirming Treatment Act. This Act prohibits health insurers from denying or limiting coverage for gender affirming treatment when that care is prescribed to an individual based on a protected gender expression or identity, is medically necessary, and is prescribed under accepted standards of care.
The Gender Affirming Treatment Act stops insurers from excluding the most commonly prescribed gender affirming treatments by classifying such procedures as cosmetic. Under the new law, beginning January 1, 2022, private insurers, the Health Care Authority (HCA), managed care plans, and providers through Medicaid programs may not deny or limit coverage for gender affirming treatmen
Patti Davis
OKLAHOMA CITY â Despite an influx of hundreds of millions of federal dollars earmarked to help pay for Medicaid expansion, lawmakers are proposing increasing fees paid by hospitals with the money to be used for the same purpose.
âWhile weâre not opposed to doing our part to increase access to care, we are disappointed that the Legislature chose not to use the hospital fee as a backstop considering that we have federal funds available for the next eight quarters,â said Patti Davis, president of Oklahoma Hospital Association.
She said the stateâs hospitals still are in ârecovery modeâ from the pandemic, and they would prefer legislators would first use the hundreds of millions in additional federal funding before increasing their assessment rate.