Oregon Lagging On Medicaid Eligibility Verification For Approximately 86,000 People

As of May 2017, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has not yet completed an annual Medicaid eligibility determination for about 8% of enrolled beneficiaries, representing about 86,000 people. The missing eligibility determinations were discovered during an audit of the state's three-year transition from the failed Cover Oregon computer system to a new one.

Cover Oregon is the state-run health insurance marketplace run by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS). The original platform was built by Oracle, but the system had multiple technical problems and catastrophic software failures; it never worked as planned. Since . . .