STAT April 8, 2024
It’s been a year since states began the process of Medicaid redetermination, going through their Medicaid rolls that had been frozen through the Covid-19 emergency period. According to data from KFF, about 21% of the people who were enrolled prior to the redetermination, or close to 20 million, lost coverage, while 45%, or 42 million, were confirmed. For the remaining 31 million people, renewal of coverage is still pending.
Beyond the impact on individual patients, the redetermination had a sizable impact on community health centers, which serve about 15% of all Medicaid patients. New data shared by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), which surveyed about 200 community centers around the country, serving an average 22,000 patients,...