Health Payer Intelligence February 1, 2023
States face many challenges as the start date for Medicaid redeterminations approaches, but they can take steps before, during, and after redeterminations to mitigate major missteps.
On April 1, 2023, states will begin the Medicaid redetermination process as part of the public health emergency unwinding. After anticipating this moment for the last two years, states finally received an official start date in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023.
When Tricia Brooks, research professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center for Children and Families, thinks about the impending Medicaid redetermination process, three concerns come to mind.
First, she worries about the states’ staffing capacity. A quarter of state Medicaid programs have a vacancy rate of 20 percent or...