Oregon: Pvt. up 15% since Jan. 6; Medicaid up 6%

Some slightly updated numbers out of Oregon today, revealed during a conference call with the director of the beleaguered Cover Oregon exchange. Private enrollments are up from 20K to 23K, and exchange-based Medicaid enrollments up from 39,711 to about 42,000.

In addition, some info on the method of the 115,000 "direct transfers" to Medicaid off of the exchange: Apparently they used food stamp income information to do so, which is pretty clever if you think about it.

More than 65k enrolled so far through exchange, he says, 23k in private plans

— Nick Budnick (@NickBudnick) January 15, 2014

Oregon has enrolled more than 115k in Medicaid via workaround to avoid exchange, using food stamp income info

— Nick Budnick (@NickBudnick) January 15, 2014