Drummond responds to Bullard’s resignation, cites pattern of failure at OHCA
OKLAHOMA CITY (July 15, 2026) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following statement today on the resignation of Clay Bullard as Director of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority:
“Clay Bullard's resignation comes after a tenure marked by the same Stitt administration failures my office repeatedly had to confront. Oklahomans were promised managed care would lower costs and improve care. Instead, they got denied claims, delayed payments and a governor more interested in defending out-of-state insurance corporations than the people he serves.
“Under Gov. Stitt's leadership, OHCA failed to hold its managed care organizations accountable. The agency has failed to audit whether providers serving some of our most vulnerable citizens were paid on time, has failed to scrutinize claims that don't reflect Oklahoma values, and has failed to audit the MCOs for fraudulent enrollment. OHCA's own Program Integrity Unit, which by federal design should be a primary source of fraud referrals, accounted for just 1% of the referrals received by my office’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit last year, only 2 out of 168. Combined with the agency's budget failures, these are exactly the deficiencies I asked the State Auditor to examine.
“Accountability at OHCA has been a fight this office has had to force, which is not what Oklahomans want or deserve. The agency owes Oklahomans real transparency, and I'll continue to hold it to that standard.”
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