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Date Last Updated: CMCS, CAHPG, DCHIP, June 09, 2011

Additionally, the amendment allows Oregon to institute an Application Assistance Program (AAP) to assist families applying for CHIP and other child health programs in the State as part of its Health Kids initiative and finance an Outreach and Enrollment Grant Program designed to provide culturally-specific and targeted outreach and direct application assistance to families in racial, ethnic and language minority communities living in geographic isolation or with additional access barriers.

• On August 27, 2009, Oregon submitted its eleventh amendment to its Title XXI State Plan. This amendment proposes to expand unborn coverage in additional counties.

• A twelfth amendment was submitted by the State on June 30, 2009 to implement the legal immigrant funding option as listed in CHIPRA section 214.

• On August 10, 2009, Oregon submitted its thirteenth amendment to its Title XXI State Plan. This amendment allows Oregon to implement the Express Lane Eligibility (ELE) option under the title XXI State plan, per section 203 of Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), using the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) as the express lane eligibility agencies that will be operating to perform a simplified eligibility determination process and expedited enrollment of eligible children in CHIP.

• On October 25, 2010, Oregon submitted its fourteenth amendment to its Title XXI State Plan. This amendment allows Oregon to expand coverage to unborn children with family income up to 185 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL) in Lane County and to simplify income eligibility by using the income in the month of application for the income test.

• On March 28, 2011, Oregon submitted its sixteenth amendment to its Title XXI State Plan. This amendment allows Oregon to expand coverage to unborn children with family income up to 185 percent of the Federal poverty level (FPL) in Columbia, Crook, Douglas, Jefferson, Josephine, Morrow, Union and Wasco counties.

Children Covered under the Program

• The State reported that there were 62,121 children ever enrolled in CHIP during Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2009.