More than 113,000 Oklahomans will have health coverage starting next month through Medicaid expansion. 

Of those, 17,591 are people who had never applied before, according to the Oklahoma Health Care Authority.

The rest — 95,829 — are people whose recent applications were reprocessed or those who were transitioned into SoonerCare from more limited benefit programs.

Melissa Richey, a spokeswoman for the Health Care Authority, said the agency is monitoring what parts of the state applicants are coming from, as well as their ages and other demographics, to determine where it’ll need to focus outreach efforts to reach more eligible Oklahomans.

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