HIE Coordinated Care Oklahoma to cease operations

Healthcare IT News: The health information exchange Coordinated Care Oklahoma (CCO), said this week it will go out of business because a large, unnamed health insurer had mandated that its providers work with another HIE.

“Our board recognizes that one of the largest payers in Oklahoma has mandated its contracted providers must submit data to another HIE platform for their use in value-based contracting programs,” CCO chairman Roger Neal said in a statement. “That decision creates a hardship on many of Oklahoma’s providers and hospitals and has resulted in duplicative HIE costs for many who were members of CCO.”

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