2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-5015. Review of state-purchased and state-subsidized health care programs and regulatory agencies - Report to Legislature.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall review state-purchased and state-subsidized health care programs and health care regulatory agencies, including, but not limited to, medical services within the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Human Services, the State Department of Health, the Oklahoma Medical Center, the State Education and Employees Group Insurance Board, and any other state-purchased and state-subsidized health care programs as deemed appropriate by the administrator, and submit to the Legislature, no later than December 1, 1995, an initial report including, but not limited to:

1. A description of the respective roles of these programs and agencies regarding health care cost containment;

2. A plan to increase the combined efficiency of these programs and agencies to control costs and maintain or improve access to quality care;

3. Methods to ensure coordination between these programs and agencies and the Authority;

4. An analysis of the real and potential impacts of cost shifting; and

5. Recommendations regarding structural changes in the state's current health care delivery system.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 332, § 13. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 109, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.