Topic: Health

Oklahoma Named Early Innovator: $54 million to build the best health care technology in the country

By: Kate Richey
March 7, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
The ‘Oklahoma Health Insurance Exchange’ will begin serving as an online marketplace for individual and small group consumers to buy private insurance in 2014.  Online insurance exchanges – which we discussed in this recent blog post –  are one of… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform (7): It's more than a mandate

By: Kate Richey
February 24, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the seventh in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on the Temporary High Risk Pool, health insurance exchanges and tax credits for small businesses.  You can also visit the health care… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform Resources and Analysis

By: Oklahoma Policy Institute
February 16, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
For resources specific to Oklahoma and the Affordable Care Act click here for Medicaid and here for the Health Insurance Marketplace. Read the Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act Healthcare.gov AARP American Public Health Association Center on Budget and… Read more [More...]

Guest blog (Shelley Cadamy): Spending on mental health services earns a substantial return on investment

By: Gene Perry
// Updated: May 2, 2019
Shelley Cadamy is a native Oklahoman and adoptive/foster parent who has done economic development work in Oklahoma since 1994. During a Leadership Oklahoma City session several years ago, I had the opportunity to ask the Oklahoma City Police Chief and… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform (6): Implementing Insurance 'Exchanges'

By: Kate Richey
February 10, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the sixth in an ongoing series of posts examining the Affordable Care Act, including previous posts on the Temporary High Risk Pool and tax credits for small businesses.  You can also visit the health care reform page on… Read more [More...]

A patient's eye-opening perspective on Oklahoma's mental health system

By: David Blatt
January 6, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Any Oklahoman with an interest in mental health issues would do well to read the article titled “Asylum” that appeared in the December issue of This Land, a new Tulsa-based monthly magazine. The article is a vivid first-hand account by… Read more [More...]

Guest Blog (Donna Rhodes): Long Term Care – The sleeping giant is stirring

By: David Blatt
January 5, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Donna Rhodes is the CEO of the Long Term Care Authority, a public trust authority of the city and county of Tulsa leading the Tulsa community and the state in addressing long term care reform. While the voice of long… Read more [More...]

New Medicaid online enrollment puts Oklahoma out in front

By: David Blatt
December 13, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
“Is there anyone here from Oklahoma?” I was at a national conference of health care policy experts and advocates last month when the morning’s plenary speaker, Cindy Mann, Medicaid Director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, posed that… Read more [More...]

Guest Blog (Tricia Brooks): CMS proposes a Medicaid rule you (and states) may like

By: David Blatt
November 19, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This blog was authored by Tricia Brooks, a Senior Fellow at the  Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University. It originally appeared on November 4th on Say Ahhh! A Children’s Health Policy Blog and is cross-posted here with permission.… Read more [More...]

Health Care Reform (5): Shifting more long-term care away from institutions

By: David Blatt
October 6, 2010 // Updated: May 2, 2019
This is the fifth in an ongoing series of posts examining the new federal health care reform law. Our previous posts have explored the “cliff effect”; the  impact on state budgets; the Temporary High Risk Pool; and tax credits for… Read more [More...]