Managed Healthcare Executive June 4, 2024
Logan Lutton

Procedural issues are twice as likely to affect Black and Hispanic enrollees than White enrollees.

Black and Hispanic individuals were twice as likely to not complete the Medicaid re-enrollment processes at the end of continuous Medicaid enrollment last year, according to a new research letter published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Northwestern University and Oregon Health and Science University.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, 94 million Americans were automatically enrolled in Medicaid during continuous enrollment. Since continuous enrollment ended on March 31, 2023, 10 million people have lost coverage as states began to redetermine eligibility for Medicaid.

To estimate adult Medicaid disenrollment, researchers used seven waves of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, which...

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