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
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Lawmakers have chosen to set in state statute guardrails for Oklahoma’s Medicaid managed care program rather than block Gov. Kevin Stitt’s privatization plan.
The Senate and House signed off on a final version of Senate Bill 131 late last week. It puts contract provisions with the four participating insurers into state law, gives the legislature opportunities to pump the brakes on expanding managed care and preserves reimbursement rates for providers that opt out of performance-based pay models.
Senate Health and Human Services Chair Greg McCortney (R-Ada) said he thinks managed care will improve health outcomes, but it’s good to have some oversight of billions of state dollars.
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Update: The Senate passed the $8.3 billion state budget restoring COVID-19 cuts and boosting education funding in a 38-9 vote. The budget has now been sent to the governor.
Oklahoma House and Senate Democrats blasted the state budget process saying all Oklahomans lose when just a few lawmakers come up with the budget behind closed doors.
“We’re sitting in the meeting, and we are being handed bills that we are about to be asked to vote on, and this is not an exaggeration, the bills are actually sometimes warm because they just came off the printers,” Senate Minority Leaders Kay Floyd, D-OKC, said.