An unprecedented nationwide review of the 84 million Medicaid enrollees over the next year will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high for the program.
Alicia Celaya, David Cardenas and their son Adrian, 3, are shown at their home, April 27, 2023, in Phoenix.
Millions are expected to be left without insurance after getting a reprieve for the past three years during the coronavirus pandemic, when the federal government barred states from removing anyone who was deemed ineligible. Hawkins spends his days driving winding roads across the state providing free legal services to people who have lost coverage or need help filling out pages of forms the state has mailed to them. In between his drives, he fields about a half-dozen phone calls daily from people seeking guidance on their Medicaid applications.
“I got a little panicky,” she said at the time. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take to get my insurance.”The McHenry family, in Winter Park, Florida, also worries the state has mixed up their income while checking their eligibility for Medicaid. Some doctors and their staffs are taking it upon themselves to let patients know about the complicated process they’ll have to navigate over the next year.
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Error, confusion plague review kicking millions off MedicaidThe McHenrys are among the first casualties in an unprecedented nationwide review of the 84 million Medicaid enrollees over the next year that will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high.
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Error, confusion plague review kicking millions off MedicaidSome Medicaid recipients tell The Associated Press errors and confusion are leading to them being kicked off the federally and state-funded health coverage program
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Error, confusion plague review kicking millions off MedicaidMillions are expected to be left without insurance after getting a reprieve for the past three years during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Error, confusion plague review kicking millions off MedicaidSome Medicaid recipients tell The Associated Press errors and confusion are leading to them being kicked off the federally and state-funded health coverage program. States are undertaking an unprecedented review of the 84 million Medicaid enrollees nationwide. The federal government will require states to remove people whose incomes are too high for the program. Millions are expected to lose insurance. Some advocacy groups and Medicaid recipients in states that have started the process say they've been mistakenly removed. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says it'll work with states inundated with calls from enrollees. For the past three years during the coronavirus pandemic, the government had barred states from removing anyone deemed ineligible.
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Error, confusion plague review kicking millions off MedicaidSome Medicaid recipients tell The Associated Press errors and confusion are leading to them being kicked off the federally and state-funded health coverage program
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Error, confusion plague review kicking millions off MedicaidDays out from a surgery and with a young son undergoing chemotherapy, Kyle McHenry was scrambling to figure out if his Florida family will still be covered by Medicaid come Monday.
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