If your state decides that you no longer meet the eligibility requirements for Medicaid, you will lose your coverage in the spring.
After Congress barred states from kicking people out of the Medicaid program for the duration of the public health emergency declared in response to Covid, the number of people in the program surged.
There is a provision in the bill that would eliminate the Medicaid coverage protections from public health emergencies. If recipients don't meet eligibility criteria, states could end coverage in April 2023.
The director of federal policy at the National Association of Medicaid Directors said that as of April 1, Medicaid agencies will be able to end coverage for people who are re-enrolled. Since the Covid-19 public health emergency began, states were not allowed to end Medicaid coverage.
The legislation is expected to be passed by congress by Friday.
Since the beginning of the Pandemic, the public health emergencyi has been renewed every 90 days. The emergency declaration has allowed hospitals to act more quickly when there is an increase in infections and Medicaid to keep millions of people insured.
According to the Health and Human Services Department, about 15 million people will lose Medicaid coverage once the protections are removed. Medicaid is the federal insurance program for the poor and people who can't work because of a disability.
Medicaid coverage loss doesn't mean health insurance coverage loss The man said, "Rollins said." Many of those people will be moving to other sources of coverage.
People lose Medicaid coverage if their income goes beyond the program's parameters. Most people who are disenrolled for this reason will likely switch to coverage in the marketplaces. About a third of people who lose Medicaid coverage will be able to get tax credits for marketplace insurance, according to the HHS.
Some people are disenrolled because they don't receive their renewal notice, can't provide documentation, or don't submit the documents on time. More than 6 million people will lose Medicaid coverage even though they are still eligible, according to the HHS.
According to a Medicaid expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, there needs to be a process for renewing coverage.
Tolbert said that the key was to minimize the coverage losses among people who remain eligible.
The legislation requires states to try to get in touch with the individual whose eligibility is being reviewed. States can't end someone's Medicaid coverage on the basis of returned mail.
It is our goal to make sure that states have the most up-to-date contact information. Without accurate contact information, that increases the likelihood of inappropriate or unnecessary coverage loss and that is something that we are trying to avoid.
Republican governors on Monday called on the Biden administration to end the Covid public health emergency in April so that they can begin disenrolling people who no longer meet Medicaid eligibility requirements.
The KFF found that states spent $47 billion to cover the additional Medicaid patients, while they received $100 billion in federal funds.
The costs were paid for by the federal government.
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