Children's Free/Low Cost Health Insurance

We know an education is the best gift we can give our children. We also know that healthy kids learn better and healthy kids start with health coverage that their families can afford.

Healthy Kids is Oregon’s newly expanded no-cost and low-cost health coverage program for uninsured kids and teens up to 19 years of age.  Healthy Kids is comprehensive coverage offering medical, dental, vision, prescription, and behavioral health coverage.

No family makes too much money for Healthy Kids. Parent’s income will determine whether a child is eligible for the no-cost or low-cost coverage option. For example, a family of four that earns as much as $67,200 a year may qualify for low-cost coverage.

Your child or student can be a Healthy Kid!

Make the call or apply online today for Oregon Healthy Kids!

www.OregonHealthyKids.gov or call 1-877-314-5678

Local and confidential application assistance is also available.  Healthy Kids assisters are contracted with the State of Oregon and offer assistance in many languages with cultural competency.  To find assistance in your area, please visit http://www.oregonhealthykids.gov/apply/map.html or contact MESD at 503-257-1732.

If your children are not eligible for Oregon’s “Healthy Kids” because of citizenship status, you may get health coverage through Kaiser Permanente which does not require children to have legal, permanent citizenship.

Kaiser eligibility now extends to children in public school enrolled in kindergarten through age 18.  Under this coverage there no premiums and no co-pay for preventive services.

The enrollment period is open and families are strongly encouraged to sign up before winter break in December.

Would you like assistance?

Contact Multnomah Education Service District:  503-257-1732 or go to their website:

www.mesd.k12.or.us/shs/childhealth/refer.shtml