Health Affairs March 18, 2025
Health Affairs’ Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Erica Eliason of Rutgers University on her recent paper that explores how continuous eligibility policies and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) structure affected children’s coverage loss during Medicaid unwinding.
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Rob Lott:
Hello, and welcome to A Health Odyssey. I’m your host, Rob Lott. When it comes to programs like Medicaid and CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, one of the thorniest challenges is churn. That is the temporary loss of coverage in which enrollees disenroll and then reenroll within a short period of time, often due to an individual’s changing status and...