April 10, 2025
Thank you for reading this final issue of Keep Covered. The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) and Oregon Health Authority (OHA) greatly valued your feedback, engagement and collaboration during the unwinding of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.
Your work with members, partners and communities during this time helped Oregon achieve one of the highest Medicaid renewal rates in the nation. Thank you! This issue, news release and fact sheet celebrate those efforts from April 1, 2023, through Feb. 28, 2025.
In this update:
 
High renewal rate
About 83 percent of Oregon Health Plan (OHP) members kept OHP or other medical benefits.
Equitable renewal outcomes
Medical renewal outcomes were largely consistent among Race, Ethnicity, and Language, Disability (REALD) and Gender Identity groups, and renewal rates for age- and disability-based Medicaid and Medicare Savings Programs exceeded the overall average. This highlights Oregon’s commitment to ensuring equitable outcomes during the renewal process.
Interagency collaboration
OHA and ODHS’s joint agency governance structure facilitated coordination and compliance and will serve as a model for future endeavors.
1,456,709 individuals went through the renewal process. Of that number:
- 1,169,042 individuals (80.3 percent) kept their full OHP benefits.
- 40,563 individuals (2.8 percent) no longer qualified for OHP, but kept another type of medical benefit, such as a Medicare Savings Program (MSP) or OHP dental-only benefits.
- 247,104 individuals (16.9 percent) no longer qualified for benefits, so their benefits closed.
Of the individuals whose benefits closed, nearly 130,000 were referred to the Oregon Health Insurance Marketplace. During this period, 32,363 consumers made Marketplace plan selections. It is important to note that not all Marketplace enrollment is attributable to OHP renewal determinations. Of 67,206 Marketplace consumers with previous Medicaid or CHIP enrollment who applied through the Marketplace, 50,930 (76 percent) consumers applied for Marketplace coverage and were determined Marketplace-eligible, including people who lost Medicaid in another state and now live in Oregon.
While Oregon observed equitable outcomes from the medical renewal process overall, renewal rates for some populations fell slightly below the average renewal rate of 83.1 percent.
For example, 82 percent of people who identified as non-binary renewed their OHP benefits, as did 81 percent of Asians, Middle Easterners or North Africans, and 80 percent of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Renewal and response rates for age and disability-based Medicaid and Medicare Savings Programs exceeded overall averages.
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