Under the COVID-19 “Public Health Emergency” (PHE) declaration some states paused dis-enrolling children, mothers, and others from Medicaid health insurance as of March 2020.
Some of those states will restart Medicaid dis-enrollments — requiring a review of millions of Americans later this year. This may cause many eligible Americans – primarily kids to lose Medicaid coverage when dis-enrollments resume because they’ve moved in the last two years and Medicaid doesn’t have an updated mailing address and/or the eligibility system is already understaffed and overworked. The chaos involved with trying to quickly process millions of renewals will lead to loss of coverage.