TULSA, Okla. (AP) Oklahoma's Medicaid provider says enrollment in the government-sponsored Medicaid health care program for the medically indigent jumped 6-point-5 percent last year. Mike Fogarty, head of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, says he attributes the increase to public-awareness campaigns that tell families they may qualify for Medicaid. The Kaiser Family Foundation says the increase in the number of poor and disabled people signed up for Medicaid was greater last year in Oklahoma than most of the nation. Nationally, growth was the lowest since 1999 at 1-point-6 percent. The number of children covered by Medicaid has nearly doubled in the last decade. About 65 percent of the more than 740-thousand Oklahomans on Medicaid is younger than 18. About 20 percent are aged, blind or disabled. Posted at 1/22/2007 09:19:00 AM