KFF September 18, 2024
In April 2023, states began the process of unwinding the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision, a pandemic-era policy that protected Medicaid coverage for millions of enrollees. During the unwinding, states redetermined eligibility for everyone on the program and disenrolled those who were no longer eligible or who did not complete the renewal process. Before the start of the coronavirus pandemic in February 2020, there were 71 million people enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP. After the three-year pause in disenrollments, that number grew to a record high of 94 million people by April 2023, the month after the end of continuous enrollment. From the outset of the unwinding, there were major questions related to how many people would be disenrolled versus retain...
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