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Online Applications Open For Oklahomans Wanting To Apply For SoonerCare Benefits
Applications are now open for qualifying Oklahomans to sign up for SoonerCare online. SoonerCare is Oklahoma s Medicaid program which expanded after being voted through last year.
Supporters said this expansion will help nearly 200,000 Oklahomans with health care coverage.
To be eligible to apply for SoonerCare, residents must be between 19 and 64 years of age and have an income the is 138% of the federal poverty line or lower.
That s under $18,000 for individuals and around $36,500 for families of four.
Oklahomans approved the expansion in June 2020 through State Question 802.
If someone s application is approved, they will start receiving benefits July 1, and then in October move to managed care.
Patti Davis
OKLAHOMA CITY â Despite an influx of hundreds of millions of federal dollars earmarked to help pay for Medicaid expansion, lawmakers are proposing increasing fees paid by hospitals with the money to be used for the same purpose.
âWhile weâre not opposed to doing our part to increase access to care, we are disappointed that the Legislature chose not to use the hospital fee as a backstop considering that we have federal funds available for the next eight quarters,â said Patti Davis, president of Oklahoma Hospital Association.
She said the stateâs hospitals still are in ârecovery modeâ from the pandemic, and they would prefer legislators would first use the hundreds of millions in additional federal funding before increasing their assessment rate.