Healthcare DIVE January 24, 2022
Dive Brief:
- A group of stakeholders aired their concerns over Medicaid redeterminations, which will begin once the COVID-19 public health emergency is over, before the influential advisory panel that guides Congress on issues facing the Medicaid program.
- Last week, stakeholders told the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Payment and Access Commission that a chief concern is unnecessarily interrupting coverage for the vulnerable population.
- They’re also worried about having enough advance notice and time to process through the applications after Medicaid rolls have swelled considerably during the public health emergency.
Dive Insight:
The fallout from the pandemic caused record unemployment, which stoked fears of insurance coverage losses at a time when people needed it most: during a deadly...