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The Oregon Health Plan offers free physical, mental and dental care coverage to adults earning about $1,550 a month or about $3,100 for a family of four. Children in a single parent household earning nearly $3,500 or those in a four-person household earning nearly $6,700 a month qualify for state and federal coverage.
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Read More »Under a new agreement, the federal government will give Oregon $1.1 billion to guarantee continued free health care coverage to tens of thousands of young children in households with low incomes and offer wider coverage to low-income young adults, especially those with special needs. The agreement, announced Wednesday in a conference call with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, also includes expanding Medicaid coverage to include housing and food support. The social services help means Medicaid in Oregon will pay recipients for rent, utilities and other housing needs for up to six months; provide help with housing applications, moving and eviction prevention and assign a case manager to coordinate services. The Oregon Health Plan, the state’s version of Medicaid, will also provide cooking and nutrition classes, food boxes, medically-appropriate prepared meals and help getting federal food benefits. In addition, Medicaid in Oregon will pay for air conditioners prior to a heat wave, air filters when wildfire smoke clogs the air and generators during extreme cold events. Medicaid providers in Oregon have already done this, but the agreement means coverage will be expanded, officials said. Both Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Brown called the agreement groundbreaking. “Keeping the young children continuously enrolled in Medicaid up to the age of 6 to prevent gaps in coverage regardless of changes in their financial circumstances is a paradigm shift,” Brown said during the call. “We’re going to be the first state in the country to do this.” Keeping the young children continuously enrolled in Medicaid up to the age of 6 to prevent gaps in coverage regardless of changes in their financial circumstances is a paradigm shift. – Gov. Kate Brown The Oregon Health Plan offers free physical, mental and dental care coverage to adults earning about $1,550 a month or about $3,100 for a family of four. Children in a single parent household earning nearly $3,500 or those in a four-person household earning nearly $6,700 a month qualify for state and federal coverage. About two-thirds of Medicaid is paid by the federal government, and the rest is paid by the state. Under the agreement, the federal government will pay $1.1 billion to Oregon to expand benefits. The state estimates the new coverage will cost Oregon nearly $500 million from the general fund through June 30, 2027. Statewide, 1.4 million people, or more than one in three Oregonians, are covered by the health plan. Since the pandemic hit, Oregon has added about 400,000 to the Medicaid rolls. Brown said the pandemic made disparities in health coverage apparent and had a disproportionate impact on people of color, those with low incomes and rural residents. “(The state) learned critical lessons from the pandemic: such as the benefits of maintaining continuous enrollment to prevent gaps in coverage, increase access to care, reduce the number of uninsured and underinsured individuals, and promote better health outcomes overall,” Brown said. Some of those lessons are being incorporated into the agreement. Besides guaranteed coverage for children, the agreement will ensure people aged 6 and older are enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan for two years even after a change in eligibility status.
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Read More »A state task force created by the Legislature in 2019 to devise a plan for universal health care coverage recently released its proposal which would provide generous physician, mental and dental care. Patients would not pay for office visits or any other co-pays or co-insurance, and they would not have deductibles, which have to be met for coverage to begin. They also wouldn’t have to buy health insurance, and the state would do away with employer-based coverage. The plan would be funded by more than $20 billion in new employer and personal income taxes. The task force, composed of state officials, medical experts and insurance company executives, recommended that the state oversee the program and that it include seniors on Medicare within the scope of federal law. Consumers would pay for services not covered by the plan. Proponents say the plan would cost Oregon less overall because of the savings on health insurance and out-of-pocket costs for care. But critics have lined up against the proposal, saying the state overestimated the financial benefits and that the plan would cost Oregon more. Some other states have pushed for universal coverage but none have adopted it. Massachusetts has come the closest. The state’s governor, Charlie Baker, was also on the conference call, announcing the adoption of a hospital initiative that is expected to improve the quality of care and reduce health disparities as part of its own Medicaid waiver. Although the universal health care proposal is far from being adopted in Oregon, the state is expanding coverage on its own beyond Medicaid. This February, the Legislature approved a plan by the Oregon Health Authority to create a new insurance plan for low-income people who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid. The “bridge plan” would apply to individuals who earn about $2,800 a month or nearly $5,800 for a family of four. It will kick in when the federal health emergency ends and people are booted off from Medicaid for earning too much.
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