Oklahoma SoonerCare Demonstration

The SoonerCare demonstration provides services to TANF related populations and the aged and disabled with some exceptions. In 2005, TEFRA children and working disabled and non-disabled low income workers were added as expansion populations. In January 2009, the demonstration was amended to change the partially capitated delivery system to a Primary Care Case Management Model; expand the size of employers who can participate in the Employer Sponsored Insurance (ESI) program; and add full-time college students through age 22 as an expansion population. Primary objectives of the demonstration are to improve access to preventive and primary services, more closely align rural and urban providers, and instill a greater degree of budget predictability into Oklahoma's Medicaid program.