Oregon has canceled plans to give incarcerated adults Medicaid coverage before their release—scuttling a program that the state had earlier argued would help ensure continuous health care for inmates as they reenter society.

The planned January start date for Oregon’s Reentry Health Care program had already been delayed , due to what the state said were changes at the federal level. But Oregon had indicated it still planned to pursue the program.

Then on Monday, Oct. 6, the Oregon Health Authority notified partner organizations that in fact the program would not be implemented at all. The state attributed the move to bandwidth limitations that have emerged as it works to comply with the new restrictions on Medicaid eligibility resulting from the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

“OHA had plan

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