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OK SB1654
Bill
AI Summary
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Establishes Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH) as a patient-centered care model using paramedics, EMTs, and other health professionals to provide in-home or on-scene assessment, treatment, and referral services for non-emergency or subacute situations, including treat-in-place, telehealth, and transport to alternative destinations
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Requires health care benefit plans to reimburse MIH suppliers for treatment-without-transport encounters at rates not less than the minimum Medicaid reimbursement rate established by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority
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Mandates reimbursement for MIH transport to alternative destinations at basic life support (BLS) or advanced life support (ALS) rates based on patient condition, including mileage
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Directs the State Commissioner of Health to promulgate rules establishing clinical and operational standards, credentialing requirements, quality assurance procedures, and coordination with Medicaid and commercial insurance plans
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Effective date of January 1, 2027
Legislative Description
Mobile integrated healthcare; directing establishment of mobile integrated healthcare program; requiring certain reimbursement. Effective date.
Last Action
Second Reading referred to Health and Human Services Committee then to Appropriations Committee
2/3/2026