Loading chat...

OK SB1654

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/2/2026

Primary Sponsor

Avery Frix

Click for details

Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Health and Human Services2/3/2026

Full Bill Text

No bill text available