A dozen states have had to pause terminating certain residents from Medicaid and to restore coverage – at least temporarily – for tens of thousands of people, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
A Covid-19 pandemic-era ban on states ending residents’ Medicaid coverage expired on April 1. Since then, more than 3 million enrollees have been disenrolled, according to state and federal data compiled by KFF. What’s greatly concerning CMS is that the majority of those terminations have been for so-called procedural reasons, meaning that enrollees did not complete the renewal process – possibly because they didn’t receive the forms or didn’t understand the instructions, among other reasons.
But if they ever fail to comply in the future, the agency “won’t hesitate to make that information public,” said CMS administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. One of the most common reasons that states have had to pause disenrollments is that they did not use electronic data sources to check certain enrollees’ income, which can lead to them being automatically renewed. Tsai termed the problem “systems glitches.
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