Tulsa World
By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer
Published: 2/11/2011 9:03 PM
Last Modified: 2/11/2011 9:03 PM
Health-care funding and the financing of municipal government topped the list of legislative priorities announced Friday by the Tulsa Metro Chamber and its 37 regional partners.
The so-called OneVoice alliance has been effective in recent years at lobbying the Legislature and the state’s congressional delegation. Past priorities have included saving the Oklahoma State University Medical Center and completion of the Gilcrease Expressway.
The top legislative priority for 2011 is implementation of what is now being called a Supplemental Hospital Offset Payment Program, but that appears to be similar to what in the past has been known as a hospital provider fee.
A number of general hospitals, including those in Tulsa, for years have asked the state to institute a mechanism whereby the hospitals pay into a fund that would be used to capture additional federal Medicaid matching funds... FULL ARTICLE
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Fri, February 11, 2011
by John Cox