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title: "Oregon Medicaid Look-Back Period | Funding LTC Marketplace"
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description: "Oregon reviews transfers made in the 60 months before the request for care and currently uses a $14,585 monthly penalty divisor through September 2026."
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Oregon · Look-Back & Penalties

# Oregon Medicaid Look-Back Period

Last updated 2026-10-20

**Quick answer:** Oregon reviews asset transfers made in the 60 months before an application for nursing facility or home- and community-based care. Its transfer penalty divisor is $14,585 a month through September 2026.

Oregon's 2026 policy transmittal (OEP-PT-26-021) sets a 60-month asset-transfer look-back for both nursing-facility care and home- and community-based services. The update removed older provisions that had reached beyond that window and applies the disqualification framework to specified long-term-care services regardless of whether the underlying Medicaid category is MAGI or OSIPM.

A five-year review doesn't automatically produce the same outcome for every transfer. Oregon first determines whether a given asset transfer is disqualifying under its rules (OAR 461-140-0296), calculates the uncompensated value involved, and only then applies a period during which department-paid nursing-facility or home- and community-based care becomes unavailable.

As of this writing, Oregon's transfer penalty divisor is $14,585 a month, a figure the state has confirmed runs through September 2026.

## Oregon figures

- Transfer look-back period: 60 months
- Transfer penalty divisor (through September 2026): $14,585/month

## Sources and official resources

- [Oregon ODHS: Aging and People with Disabilities](https://www.oregon.gov/odhs/aging-disability-services/pages/default.aspx)
- [U.S. Code: 42 U.S.C. § 1396p (liens, estate recovery, transfers of assets, Partnership disregard)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1396p)

Rules and figures change. Confirm current details with the agency before you act.

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