Oklahoma Health Care Authority

The letter demands answers from the agency on “failures within the managed Medicaid care system.”

Miller most recently served as the chief of policy and provider regulation at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

The conversation highlighted how the changes will impact Oklahoma’s health care landscape, including hospital finances and patient access.

This comes amid new leadership at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), with Director Clay Bullard taking the place of former agency CEO Ellen Buettner, who departed to assume the role of CEO at the Regional University System of Oklahoma.

Bullard previously served on the Oklahoma Medical Board and was a consulting advisor to the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority’s director and executive team.

Ellen Buettner will serve as CEO of the state’s largest four-year university system.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority Board voted to table the approval of an emergency rule related to Gov. Kevin Stitt’s recent anti-abortion executive order, which asked the agency to take certain actions regarding provider contracting.

The $50 billion rural health fund established in President Donald Trump’s megabill seeks to help stabilize and strengthen rural hospitals and providers.

A reproductive health advocate called it a “direct attack” on Planned Parenthood and its ability to participate in Oklahoma Medicaid.

Pending federal approval, schools could recoup more Medicaid dollars from providing services like occupational and speech therapy, and behavioral health supports to eligible students.