Healthcare Innovation June 5, 2024
Researchers: Black and Latino Medicaid enrollees have been twice as likely to lose coverage
Black and Latino Medicaid enrollees have been twice as likely as white enrollees to lose Medicaid coverage because of an inability to complete renewal forms over the past year, researchers have concluded in an article published in JAMA Internal Medicine online on June 3. The article, “Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medicaid Disenrollment After the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency,” was written by Kranti C. Rumalla, Daniel B. Nelson, M.D., K. John McConnell, Ph.D., and Jane M. Zhu, M.D.
“Continuous Medicaid enrollment during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) led to record enrollment of 94 million individuals and decrease in uninsurance,” the authors wrote....
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