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How Will Oklahoma's New Managed Care Plan Affect Candidates? by Hayley Twyman Brack, LPC Two weeks after the State of Oklahoma announced which four insurance companies would be awarded contracts in the state’s new Sooner Select program, many mental health care providers are considering how the overhaul of the Medicaid program will affect their practice. Traditionally, mental health licensure candidates (practitioners under supervision) in Oklahoma provide services through Med...icaid and are not awarded contracts with private insurance companies. Being that much of the traditional Medicaid population will soon be covered under private insurance, many candidates and supervisors are wondering if that will change their contracts. As discussed in a previous OCI article, under the new managed care plan Medicaid providers will be expected to contract with the individual insurance companies in order to continue to provide services to the Medicaid population. Phone calls and emails were made to representatives of each of the four insurance companies awarded contracts with the state’s managed care program to inquire as to how the overhaul will affect candidates. Specifically, representatives were asked if candidates will be awarded contracts through the insurance companies to serve Medicaid recipients. According to a representative from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, mental health care licensure candidates will be able to apply to be credentialed with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma for the Sooner Select network only. Candidates still will not be able to be credentialed with commercial networks until they are fully licensed. The representative reported that... Enjoy more articles like this at www.CounselingInstitute.org