All but lost in the regular session’s acrimonious final hours was a massive change in Oklahoma’s health care for the working poor. The Legislature passed and Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation that outsources management of Medicaid, even though the current state-run system, administered by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, is widely heralded as one of the nation’s most efficient. For this week’s Observercast – Managed Care Comes To Oklahoma – Oklahoma Hospital Association President Patti Davis helps explain and analyze the changes that will impact hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients and health care providers, many of whom may be wondering why the statehouse felt compelled to fix something that wasn’t broken.

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