3,000 applications go out for those on the reservation list for OHP Standard
Submitted by Shelley Joyce on Thu, 07/10/2008 - 9:59am.
State officials mailed applications for Oregon Health Plan coverage in early July to 3,000 more adults whose names were randomly drawn from the reservation list on which 91,000-plus names were placed last winter.
Applications for the Standard benefit plan, which covers uninsured low-income adults who do not qualify for traditional Medicaid, are being mailed to residents of all 36 counties.
“This mailing brings to 15,000 the number of OHP-Standard applications mailed since March,” said Jim Edge, state Medicaid director in the Oregon Department of Human Services. “As a result of people returning their OHP-Standard applications, we have so far enrolled 3,084 people for medical coverage who did not have it before.”
Edge said DHS will continue to enroll people until the number covered reaches a monthly average of 24,000 adults for the two-year budget period that ends June 30, 2009. There are now approximately 20,000 people in Standard, part of the larger state Medicaid program that covers approximately 425,000 people.
The deadline for submitting applications mailed in July will be Aug. 22. Applicants with questions may call 1-800-699-9075. The reservation list from which a computer randomly draws names was open for five weeks in January and February, when the state invited uninsured low-income Oregon residents to put their names on the list.
The 10 counties whose residents will receive the largest numbers of OHP-Standard applications this week are Multnomah (703), Lane (321), Marion (242), Washington (210), Clackamas (195), Jackson (176), Douglas (141), Josephine (103), Deschutes (87) and Linn (79). Rural Gilliam, Grant, Lake, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler counties will each receive fewer than 10.
Applications for the Standard benefit plan, which covers uninsured low-income adults who do not qualify for traditional Medicaid, are being mailed to residents of all 36 counties.
“This mailing brings to 15,000 the number of OHP-Standard applications mailed since March,” said Jim Edge, state Medicaid director in the Oregon Department of Human Services. “As a result of people returning their OHP-Standard applications, we have so far enrolled 3,084 people for medical coverage who did not have it before.”
Edge said DHS will continue to enroll people until the number covered reaches a monthly average of 24,000 adults for the two-year budget period that ends June 30, 2009. There are now approximately 20,000 people in Standard, part of the larger state Medicaid program that covers approximately 425,000 people.
The deadline for submitting applications mailed in July will be Aug. 22. Applicants with questions may call 1-800-699-9075. The reservation list from which a computer randomly draws names was open for five weeks in January and February, when the state invited uninsured low-income Oregon residents to put their names on the list.
The 10 counties whose residents will receive the largest numbers of OHP-Standard applications this week are Multnomah (703), Lane (321), Marion (242), Washington (210), Clackamas (195), Jackson (176), Douglas (141), Josephine (103), Deschutes (87) and Linn (79). Rural Gilliam, Grant, Lake, Morrow, Sherman, Wallowa and Wheeler counties will each receive fewer than 10.
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