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63 OK Stat § 63-1-2512 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2512. Rules.

|A. The State Board of Health, giving consideration to the recommendations of the Trauma and Emergency Response Advisory Council as created in Section 44 of this act, shall promulgate rules to enact the provisions of the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Development Act. |B. Such rules shall specify which vehicles of licensed ambulance service providers shall be considered authorized emergency vehicles pursuant to the provisions of Section 1-103 of Title 47 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The rules shall provide that vehicles transporting licensed ambulance service personnel or life saving equipment that meet all other specifications required by the Board shall be considered authorized emergency vehicles.Added by Laws 1990, c. 320, § 16, emerg. eff. May 30, 1990. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 167, § 2, eff. July 1, 1991; Laws 2001, c. 411, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2013, c. 229, § 68, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2512.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2512.1. Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund - Rules.

|A. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Department of Health to be designated the "Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of monies received by the State Department of Health in accordance with state law. All monies accruing to the credit of the fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the Department for the purpose of funding assessment activities, stabilization and/or reorganization of at-risk emergency medical services, development of regional emergency medical services, training for emergency medical directors, access to training front line emergency medical services personnel, capital and equipment needs. Expenditures from the fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. |B. The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules establishing a formula and procedure for the distribution of funds from the Oklahoma Emergency Response Systems Stabilization and Improvement Revolving Fund.Added by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 2008. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 490.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2513 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2513. Operation of ambulance service - Application for license – Air Ambulance providers.

|A. All persons, companies, governmental entities or trust authorities desiring to operate an ambulance service shall file with the State Commissioner of Health an application for a license to operate the service. The Commissioner shall, within two (2) months of the date of the application, notify the applicant in writing of the granting or rejection of the license and shall, in the event of rejection, specify the reasons for the rejection. |B. The Commissioner may issue an Oklahoma Air Ambulance Provider License to an Air Ambulance provider, duly licensed in good standing and operating from bases in an adjoining state, that makes application and provides documentation pursuant to rules promulgated by the State Board of Health. Such ambulance provider staff shall not be required to be licensed in this state but shall be required to meet the licensure requirements in the state of origin.Added by Laws 1990, c. 320, § 17, emerg. eff. May 30, 1990. Amended by Laws 2005, c. 191, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2005.NOTE: Editorially renumbered from § 1-2413 of this title to avoid duplication in numbering.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2523 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2523. Oklahoma Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Revolving Fund.

|There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Department of Health, to be designated the "Oklahoma Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the State Department of Health from state appropriations for such fund. All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the State Department of Health as follows: |The State Department of Health is authorized to develop and support the Oklahoma Institute for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (the "Institute") at the OU College of Medicine in Tulsa. The primary duties and responsibilities of the Institute shall include:1. Creation and delivery of educational initiatives related to trauma systems development and trauma systems coordination, in order to strengthen the quality of trauma care services rendered statewide;2. Development and support of an emergency medical response infrastructure to include statewide planning and training functions;3. Establishment and support of an allopathic emergency medicine residency program in Oklahoma; and4. In partnership with the State Department of Health, to further develop an injury prevention research program to identify significant risks and design and implement effective interventions to mitigate those risks.Up to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000.00) of this fund may be used for delivery of urgent care in under-served areas.Expenditures from said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment.Added by Laws 2006, 2nd Ex. Sess., c. 59, § 13. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 491.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2530 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2530. Short title.

|This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Trauma Systems Improvement and Development Act”. |Added by Laws 2004, c. 459, § 1, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2530.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2530.1. Legislative findings and intent.

|A. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: |1. Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death for persons under forty (40) years of age, and the third leading cause of death overall for persons of all ages. Traumatic injury is the leading cause of lost years of potential life for Oklahomans sixty-five (65) years of age and younger;2. In addition to the physical and emotional losses that result from traumatic injury, the economic costs of such injuries, which include lost wages, medical expenses and indirect costs, far exceed losses for other diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and diabetes;3. Trauma systems dramatically reduce morbidity and mortality from major injuries; and4. Development and improvement of trauma systems is beneficial to all citizens.B. In order to improve the health and well-being of the people of this state, it is necessary to improve and further develop trauma systems by encouraging hospitals and emergency medical service providers to provide an organized system of trauma care.Added by Laws 2004, c. 459, § 2, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2530.2 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2530.2. Definitions.

|As used in the Oklahoma Trauma Systems Improvement and Development Act: |1. "Ambulance" means any ground, air or water vehicle operated by an ambulance service licensed pursuant to the provisions of Section 1-2513 of this title;2. "Ambulance service" means any private firm or governmental agency which is licensed by the State Department of Health to provide levels of medical care based on certification standards promulgated by the State Board of Health;3. "Board" means the State Board of Health;4. "Classification" means an inclusive standardized identification of stabilizing and definitive emergency services provided by each hospital that treats emergency patients;5. "Commissioner" means the State Commissioner of Health;6. "Council" means the Trauma and Emergency Response Advisory Council created in Section 44 of this act;7. "Department" means the State Department of Health;8. "Emergency medical care" means bona fide emergency services provided after the sudden onset of a medical or traumatic condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in:a.a patient's health being placed in serious jeopardy,b.serious impairment to bodily functions, orc.serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part;9. "Hospital" means a hospital licensed pursuant to the provisions of Section 1-704 of this title;10. "Regional trauma care system" means an arrangement of available resources that are coordinated for the effective delivery of emergency trauma services within a geographic region consistent with an established plan;11. "Trauma and emergency operative services facility" means a hospital that is classified and recognized by the Department as providing emergency trauma and operative surgical services on a twenty-four-hour basis;12. "Trauma patient" means a severely or seriously injured person who has been:a.evaluated by a physician, a registered nurse, or emergency medical services personnel, andb.found to require medical care in a hospital classified as a trauma and emergency operative services facility; and13. "Trauma services" includes services provided to a severely or seriously injured patient.Added by Laws 2004, c. 459, § 3, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004.Amended by Laws 2013, c. 229, § 69, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2530.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2530.5. Recognition of geographic regions with functioning trauma system - Regional trauma advisory boards - Funding.

|A. Each geographic region identified in the statewide trauma systems plan that has a functioning trauma system shall be recognized by the State Department of Health. |B. Licensed hospitals and ambulance service providers in these regions shall establish a regional trauma advisory board to represent the region and conduct continuous quality improvement activities of the system for the region. Licensed hospitals and ambulance service providers in the region shall designate regional trauma advisory board members. Regional trauma advisory board members shall consist of individuals who provide trauma services in the regional system, or individuals employed by licensed hospitals or ambulance service providers in the region. The maximum number of board members for any region shall be twenty.C. As funds are available, regional trauma advisory boards may receive funding from the Department to support their administrative and continuous quality improvement activities.D. 1. Meetings of regional trauma advisory boards and their subcommittees conducted to review patient-specific care for the purpose of conducting continuous quality improvement activities of the system for the region to include but not be limited to trauma, stroke and ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), shall not be subject to the provisions of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act.2. The proceedings and records of the meetings referenced in paragraph 1 of this subsection to include patient care records, reports and other related materials generated for the purposes of conducting continuous quality improvement activities of the system for the region and to include but not be limited to trauma, stroke and STEMI, shall be confidential and not subject to the Oklahoma Open Records Act, or disclosure by subpoena or otherwise.3. The proceedings and records of the meetings referenced in paragraph 1 of this subsection may be used by the regional trauma advisory boards and the State Commissioner of Health in the exercise of proper quality review functions to improve trauma patient care.Added by Laws 2004, c. 459, § 6, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 229, § 71, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2019, c. 393, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2530.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2530.8. Recognition and certification of trauma transfer and referral centers - Rules establishing minimum standards - Data - Funding.

|A. The State Department of Health shall recognize and certify a trauma transfer and referral center in each county and contiguous communities with populations in excess of three hundred thousand (300,000) persons for the purpose of directing ambulance patients to facilities with the clinical capacity and capability to appropriately care for the emergent medical needs of a patient. |B. The State Board of Health, giving consideration to the recommendations of the Trauma and Emergency Response Advisory Council created in Section 44 of this act, shall promulgate rules establishing minimum certification standards for such centers which shall include, but not be limited to, staff certification, data management and communications equipment, medical control and oversight, record keeping, quality improvement activities, and such other issues as the State Commissioner of Health deems appropriate.C. Certified centers shall submit data as required by the Department for the purpose of trauma system continuous quality improvement activities. Such reports shall be confidential as provided in Section 1-2530.7 of this title.D. The Board, giving consideration to the recommendations of the Trauma and Emergency Response Advisory Council created in Section 44 of this act, shall promulgate rules requiring emergency medical services providers to contact the appropriate regional trauma transfer and referral center while transporting injured patients into or within that region in order to ensure that patients are directed to the appropriate hospital based on the regional plan and the current capability and capacity of hospitals in the system.E. As funding is available, the Department may reimburse operators of certified trauma transfer and referral centers for the operations of the centers on an annual basis.Added by Laws 2004, c. 459, § 9, emerg. eff. June 4, 2004. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 229, § 72, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2600 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2600. Short title.

|This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Kidney Health Planning Act of Oklahoma". |Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2601 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2601. Purpose of act.

|The purpose of the Kidney Health Planning Act of Oklahoma is to provide financial assistance to persons who have permanent kidney failure which requires either dialysis or transplantation. |Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2602 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2602. Eligibility requirements - Areas of financial assistance.

|A. The State Department of Health shall establish eligibility requirements for financial assistance from the Kidney Health Revolving Fund. Financial assistance shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following areas: |1. Payment for three (3) months of Hemodialysis treatments prior to establishment of Medicare eligibility;2. Payment for the Social Security deductible in situations where the patient is unable to meet the deductible;3. Monthly medications;4. Transportation to and from dialysis;5. Pretransplant and posttransplant costs including lab work, tissue typing and the medication Cyclosporine;6. Certain physician's fees; and7. Such other financial assistance to indigent persons with permanent kidney failure as the Department deems appropriate.B. The State Department of Health shall promulgate rules for the proper administration of the Kidney Health Revolving Fund in accordance with the requirements of this section.Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2603 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2603. Kidney Health Revolving Fund.

|There is hereby created in the State Treasury a revolving fund for the State Department of Health, to be designated the "Kidney Health Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of all monies received by the State Department of Health from state appropriations for such fund. All monies accruing to the credit of said fund are hereby appropriated and may be budgeted and expended by the State Department of Health for the purpose of implementing the provisions of the Kidney Health Planning Act of Oklahoma. Expenditures from said fund shall be made upon warrants issued by the State Treasurer against claims filed as prescribed by law with the Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services for approval and payment. |Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1993. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 493.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2604 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2604. Individual policy coverage for prescription drugs for cancer treatment or study of oncology - Exclusion prohibited.

|No individual policy of accident and health insurance issued which provides coverage for prescription drugs, nor any group blanket policy of accident and health insurance issued which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall exclude coverage of prescription drugs for cancer treatment or the study of oncology because the off-label use of such prescription drug has not been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration for that indication in one of the standard reference compendia, as defined in paragraph (d) of Section 1-1401 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |Any coverage of a prescription drug required by this section shall also include provisions for coverage of medically necessary services associated with the administration of the prescription drug.Nothing in this section shall be construed as altering existing law with regard to provisions limiting the coverage of prescription drugs that have not been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration.Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2605 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2605. Off-label uses of prescription drugs for cancer treatment - Coverage under health maintenance contracts.

|Any group or non-group health maintenance contract which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall also provide coverage of off-label uses of prescription drugs used in the treatment of cancer or the study of oncology. |Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2702 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2702. Agency responsible for telemedicine and Oklahoma Telemedicine Network - Duties.

|A. 1. With available state or federal funds, the State Department of Health shall be the state entity responsible for telemedicine and development of a statewide Oklahoma telemedicine network. The Department shall also be responsible for the continued development and implementation of a statewide system for the delivery of medical and other health care services through a telehealth system. |2. In order to achieve these duties, the State Board of Health shall establish a separate office within the State Department of Health which shall be known as the Oklahoma Center for Telemedicine. The State Commissioner of Health shall appoint or employ a director of the office who shall report to the Commissioner and the Board. The Commissioner shall also employ such other personnel as necessary to carry out the duties of the Center. The director and other Center personnel shall have no other duties within the Department except those directly related to the duties and responsibilities of the Center.3. The Center shall have the power and duty to:a.assess the current status and needs of the telemedicine network and telehealth in the state,b.utilize available state and federal funds to the maximum extent possible,c.for the purposes of the continued development of telehealth services in the state, engage with any and all parties to encourage and assist communications between entities requiring telemedicine services and entities offering or providing telemedicine services,d.resolve problems and otherwise improve the delivery of telemedicine services,e.assist and facilitate the coordination efforts of hospitals and other health care facilities and providers in the development and delivery of telemedicine services,f.explore ways to provide reimbursement to providers for telehealth services,g.explore the feasibility of providing health education services through a telehealth system,h.study issues of compatibility of technology, andi.establish and maintain a website and a clearinghouse for grant information as provided by Section 1-2703 of this title.B. The Department shall enter into agreements with appropriate entities to provide the Center with assistance in carrying out the provisions of this section.C. The director of the Center may form advisory groups as is necessary to work with the Center on telehealth issues.D. The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules for the implementation of the teleradiology responsibilities outlined in this section. The rules shall be based on the American College of Radiology Standards for Teleradiology.Added by Laws 1998, c. 389, § 2, eff. July 1, 1998. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 31, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 317, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2004, c. 92, § 7, eff. July 1, 2004.NOTE: Laws 2004, c. 22, § 2 repealed by Laws 2005, c. 1, § 97, emerg. eff. March 15, 2005.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-2702.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-2702.1. Telehealth website – Establishment - Purpose.

|A. The Oklahoma Center for Telemedicine shall establish and maintain a telehealth website for the State of Oklahoma. A direct link to the telehealth website shall be maintained on the State of Oklahoma government website page. |B. The purpose of the telehealth website shall be to promote the utilization and expansion of telemedicine in this state by:1. Facilitating the exchange of information between telemedicine service providers and current or potential service users within the state;2. Providing links to additional telemedicine websites; and3. Providing a current listing of public and private grants available for:a.the development of telehealth,b.support or improvement of rural health facilities or services, andc.enhancing the delivery of health care services to rural and underserved populations.C. The Oklahoma Center for Telemedicine shall provide information and assistance to hospitals and community health centers seeking technical assistance for the development and submission of grant applications and proposals.Added by Laws 2001, c. 317, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.