eLaws | eCases | Oklahoma Administrative Code | Oklahoma Courts | Counties & Cities of Oklahoma | United States Code |
 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 36. INSURANCE

  § 36-7202. Health Carrier Access Payment Revolving Fund.  

Latest version.

  • A.  There is hereby created a mechanism of funding through health carrier access payments, as defined in Section 7201 of this title, in order to stabilize the state's Medicaid program.

    B.  There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to be designated the "Health Carrier Access Payment Revolving Fund".  The revolving fund shall be used to fund the state's Medicaid program and make full use of any federal matching funds available to the state.

    1.  The revolving fund shall consist of all monies collected and received by the Insurance Commissioner pursuant to Sections 7203 and 7204 of this title, which shall be deposited by the Insurance Commissioner into the revolving fund, as well as interest attributable to investment of money in the fund.

    2.  The revolving fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations.  All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.  Expenditures from the revolving fund shall be made pursuant to the laws of this state and the statutes relating to the state's Medicaid program.  Expenditures from the revolving fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer, based on claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.

    C.  All monies collected under Sections 7203 and 7204 of this title shall be used and expended by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for the support of the state's Medicaid program and make full use of any federal matching funds available to the state.

    D.  The Oklahoma Health Care Authority is hereby authorized to transfer funds from the Health Carrier Access Payment Revolving Fund to the 340 CMIA Programs Disbursing Fund administered by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.

    E.  No monies collected from health carriers as access payments shall be expended for any wage or salary of any employee of any state agency and shall not provide any general or administrative funding for the state or any of its agencies, except for reasonable expenses incurred by the Insurance Commissioner for the express purpose of collecting the funds and by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for the express purposes and administration of the fund.

Added by Laws 2010, c. 300, § 2.  Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 124.

Note

NOTE:  Editorially renumbered from § 7102 of this title to avoid duplication in numbering.