AXIOS May 31, 2024
Health care researchers and advocates want Georgia to implement new policies across its health insurance system as the state concludes its yearlong process of redetermining eligibility for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Why it matters: Georgia has dropped over 600,000 residents, including more than 300,000 children, from Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids (Georgia’s CHIP) since the expiration of pandemic-era coverage protections in April 2023.
- More than 80% of the overall disenrollment was due to missing documents or “procedural” paperwork issues, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, which publishes health care research and journalism.
The big picture: States have been grappling with the federally mandated “unwinding” of Medicaid for 14 months, in a process that’s put additional...
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