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Starting Thursday, most Oklahomans participating in SoonerCare, the state’s Medicaid program, will be asked to enroll in a health care plan administered by one of three companies, according to a ...
The Oklahoma Health Care Authority has the primary duty of executing SoonerCare, the Oklahoma version of Medicaid. SoonerCare is a health coverage program jointly funded by the United States federal government and the Oklahoma state government. The program provides payments to cover medical services to economically challenged individuals. OHCA ...
The Act directed to the Secretary to oversee all agencies in the State relating to the public health and assistance programs. The position was dissolved on February 1, 2003, by Governor Brad Henry when he split the post into two separate positions: the Oklahoma Secretary of Health concerned with public health protection and the Oklahoma ...
Oklahoma Question 802, the Oklahoma Medicaid Expansion Initiative, was a 2020 ballot measure on the June 30 ballot (alongside primaries for various statewide offices) to expand Medicaid in the state of Oklahoma. It passed narrowly, over the objections of many prominent state elected officials, such as Oklahoma's governor Kevin Stitt. Medicaid ...
Oklahoma Health Care Authority resumed a process to pare an estimated 270,000 low-income Oklahomans who kept SoonerCare during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 300,000 are poised to lose SoonerCare ...
The department is led by the Secretary of Health and the Commissioner of Health. Oklahoma law requires the Commissioner of Health to have professional expertise as any of the following: 1) an actively licensed physician (MD/DO), 2) a doctoral-level degree holder in public health or public health administration, 3) a masters' degree holder with a minimum of five years experience in ...
The agency receives both federal and state funding and has additional sources of revenue. The agency received a state appropriation of $753 million and had a total budget of $5.1 billion for fiscal year 2023. [1] The Department of Human Services is the largest employer in Oklahoma state government.
The Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) is a government agency which manages and supports the basic functioning of the government of Oklahoma.Under the leadership of the Oklahoma Secretary of Agency Accountability, OMES provides financial, property, purchasing, human resources and information technology services to all state agencies, and assists the Governor of ...