HealthLeaders Media July 8, 2024
New Kaiser Family Foundation research reports state challenges and some successes despite mass disenrollment.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Since April 2023, more than 23 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid.
– This disenrollment is the product of the unwinding process: the end of continuous enrollment during the pandemic and the beginning of eligibility re-verification.
– A recent Kaiser Family Foundation report and webinar highlighted what has worked — and what hasn’t — across state Medicaid programs.
During the pandemic, CMS allowed states to use Section 1902(e)(14)(A) waivers to keep members continuously enrolled in Medicaid. These waivers offered financial protection to vulnerable individuals and softened administrative burdens for states by suspending enrollment eligibility verification and renewal.
Most of those continuous enrollment...
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