KFF October 23, 2024
Elizabeth Williams, Anna Mudumala, Elizabeth Hinton, Robin Rudowitz

For a three-year period following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, states provided continuous Medicaid enrollment in exchange for an increase in the federal share of Medicaid spending (known as the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage or “FMAP”). This policy resulted in the largest ever number of enrollees in Medicaid, which, along with enhanced subsidies in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, contributed to the lowest ever uninsured rate. The 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) ended the continuous enrollment provision on March 31, 2023, requiring states to begin the process of “unwinding”, and millions of individuals have been disenrolled from Medicaid since the unwinding began. Most states began unwinding related disenrollments in late state fiscal year (FY) 2023 (which ends June...

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