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Date Last Updated: CMCS, CAHPG, DCHIP, June 09, 2011 Date Amendment #10 Submitted: July 27, 2009 Date Amendment #10 Approved: December 18, 2009
Date Amendment #10 Effective: October 1, 2009
Date Amendment #11 Submitted: August 27, 2009 Date Amendment #11 Approved: September 20, 2010 Date Amendment #11 Effective: October 1, 2009
Date Amendment #12 Submitted: September 30, 2009 Date Amendment #12 Approved: May 14, 2010 Date Amendment #12 Effective: October 1, 2009
Date Amendment #13 Submitted: August 10, 2009 Date Amendment #13 Approved: October 21, 2010 Date Amendment #13 Effective: August 1, 2010
Date Amendment #14 Submitted: October 25, 2010 Date Amendment #14 Approved: December 30, 2010 Date Amendment #14 Effective: November 1, 2010 (income eligibility
methodology)
January 1, 2011 (unborn expansion)
Date Amendment #15 Submitted: November 5, 2010 Date Amendment #15 Withdrawn: November 30, 2010
Date Amendment #16 Submitted: March 28, 2011 Date Amendment #16 Approved: May 26, 2011 Date Amendment #16 Effective: July 1, 2011
Background
• On March 2, 1998, Oregon submitted a Title XXI State Plan to expand health insurance coverage to infants and children through a separate program.
• The program provides coverage to children from birth to age 6 with family incomes between 133 percent and 170 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and to children from age 6 to age 19 with incomes between 100 percent and 170 percent of the FPL.
Amendments
• On August 13, 1999, the State submitted an amendment to allow employer sponsored coverage through its Family Health Insurance Assistance Program via a