Tucked inside a more than 4,000-page, $1.7 trillion bill that funds the federal government through September is a provision that would eliminate the Medicaid coverage protections from the public health emergency.
will lose coverage through Medicaid once the enrollment protections are no longer in place and states review individuals' eligibility based on the criteria used before the pandemic. Medicaid is the federal insurance program for the poor and those who lose their health insurance because they can't work due to a disability.
People generally lose Medicaid coverage if their income rises and falls outside the program's parameters. Rollins said most people who are disenrolled for this reason starting in April will probably transition to coverage in the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. HHS estimates that about a third of those who will lose Medicaid coverage will qualify for tax credits for marketplace insurance.
"There has to be a process for renewing coverage or re-determining coverage and disenrolling people who are no longer eligible," said Jennifer Tolbert, a Medicaid expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation. The legislation requires states to make a good faith effort to contact the individual whose eligibility is under review through more than one communication method. States cannot terminate someone's Medicaid coverage on the basis of returned mail alone in response to outreach efforts.
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