Nearly one-quarter of adults booted from Medicaid are still uninsured, survey finds

Hill April 12, 2024
Nathaniel Weixel

Nearly a quarter of adults who said they were disenrolled from Medicaid coverage in the past year since states started resuming eligibility checks remain uninsured, according to a survey released Friday by KFF.

The survey is the first to look at health coverage among adults who had Medicaid coverage in early 2023, just before states resumed eligibility checks and disenrollments after pandemic-era protections ended.

It found that nearly half of those who were disenrolled eventually reenrolled in the program weeks or months later, suggesting their coverage was likely removed in error, likely because of reasons such as failure to submit required paperwork.

Jennifer Tolbert, a co-author of the KFF report and the director of KFF’s State Health Reform...

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