medicaid unwinding
‘Worse Than People Can Imagine’: Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Breeds Chaos in States
More than two dozen people lined up outside a state public assistance office in Montana before it opened to ensure they didn’t get cut off from Medicaid. Callers in Missouri and Florida reported waiting on hold for more than two hours on hotlines to renew their Medicaid coverage. The parents of a disabled man in […]
Arkansas Democrats criticize DHS’ handling of post-pandemic Medicaid “unwinding”
Arkansas Democrats will focus on the state’s revocation of hundreds of thousands of Arkansans’ Medicaid coverage during the 2024 election cycle, party leaders said in a Tuesday press conference. The state Department of Human Services didn’t do enough to ensure people, especially children, were no longer eligible before revoking their health insurance, Grant Tennille, chairman […]
More than 184,500 Arkansans cut from Medicaid in six months during post-pandemic eligibility review
Arkansas has finished its review of the eligibility of Medicaid recipients whose coverage was extended during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Department of Human Services announced Monday. More than 184,500 Arkansans who retained coverage during the extension were disenrolled between April 1 and Sept. 30 because they did not provide necessary eligibility information, according to […]
More than 26,500 Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons in August
More than 26,500 Arkansans who had their Medicaid coverage extended due to the COVID-19 pandemic were dropped from the program in August because they did not provide necessary eligibility information, according to Arkansas Department of Human Services data released Friday. DHS has one month left in its six-month project to redetermine the eligibility of Medicaid […]
Federal agency asks states to pause Medicaid unwinding; DHS says request does not apply to Arkansas
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to all 50 states Wednesday, asking some to restore coverage for people who were recently disenrolled for procedural reasons. The request does not apply to Arkansas, Department of Human Services spokesman Gavin Lesnick said in an email. DHS conducts Medicaid eligibility reviews on […]
More than 31K Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons in July
More than 31,000 Arkansans who had their Medicaid coverage extended due to the pandemic were dropped from the program in July because they did not provide required eligibility information, the Arkansas Department of Human Services reported Tuesday. DHS has now disenrolled more than 144,000 Arkansans four months into a six-month project to redetermine the eligibility […]
Half a million people in less than a dozen states have lost Medicaid coverage since April
More than 500,000 people across 11 states have lost their Medicaid coverage since the unwinding of a policy that allowed people to stay in the program throughout the pandemic. The data, reported by the states and tracked by health policy researcher KFF, shows that of the five states providing data on people who lost Medicaid […]