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Oklahoma City, OK – The Oklahoma Health Care Authority, in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, will represent the state in the Medicaid and Corrections Policy Academy, an opportunity funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a division of the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. This initiative brings Oklahoma and five other states together to develop a shared vision for improving reentry services.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board (OHCA) approved a nearly $29 million increase in state Medicaid funding for regular nursing facilities during its Monday meeting. That appropriation will attract additional federal dollars to improve long-term care provider rates.

Oklahoma City, OK – The Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), in conjunction with the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), received a $2.5 million, three-year grant to provide technical assistance to enhance the school-based services (SBS) infrastructure in Oklahoma. This investment will allow more students and their families to connect with local and state health care resources.

More than 600,000 Oklahomans on Medicaid are now seeing their care coordinated by private insurance companies. Proponents say the rollout has been going well, but some providers and the people they serve are expecting challenges.

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued subregulatory guidance addressing the procedures that covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) should implement to respond to cybersecurity incidents involving electronic protected health information (ePHI). In issuing this guidance, HHS cited the rising number of cybersecurity incidents during 2022.

In a dispute involving the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) preventive health services rules, a Texas district court held that the coverage mandate for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs to prevent HIV infections violated an employer's rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA). The district court also addressed the appointment process for the entities that determine which items and services must be covered under the ACA's preventive health services rules, as implemented

On July 26, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) re-proposed its implementing regulations under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability in certain health programs and activities. The July 2022 re-proposed regulations would reinstate certain requirements from the May 2016 final regulations (issued under the Obama administration), including provisions that define discrimination on the basis of sex to include discrimination based on gender identity.

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The White House has issued an executive order addressing actions the administration will take regarding reproductive health care services in response to the Supreme Court's recent Dobbs ruling on abortion. Among other topics, the order calls for additional administrative guidance on covered contraceptives and privacy considerations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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