Hill June 13, 2023
The Biden administration is imploring states to slow down their efforts to cut people from Medicaid after more than a million Americans lost coverage, including many because of red tape, even though they were still eligible.
Administration health officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Tuesday said they were closely monitoring state data and were concerned about the high numbers of people losing coverage. They said if states were not following federal law, the agency would take action.
“When it is needed, we will not hesitate to use all of our enforceable enforcement tools to ensure that states are doing what they are required to do throughout the renewals,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said on a...
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