“People who are procedurally disenrolled often are not going to realize they’ve lost coverage until they show up for a medical appointment or they go to fill their prescription and are told you no longer have insurance coverage,” said Allie Gardner, a senior research associate at the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. Posted: / 03:37 PM CST Updated: / 05:43 PM CST LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Sarah Huckabee Sanders has dismissed criticism of the state’s redetermination process, saying Arkansas is merely getting the program back to its pre-pandemic coverage intentions.īut health care advocates said it’s particularly concerning when states have large numbers of people removed from Medicaid for not responding to re-enrollment notices. Some people probably don’t respond because they know they are no longer eligible, the state Department of Human Services said. They said Medicaid recipients receive multiple notices - as well as texts, emails and phone calls, when possible - before being dropped. Those figures may appear high because some states frontloaded the process, starting with people already deemed unlikely to remain eligible.ĬMS officials have specifically highlighted concerns about Arkansas, which has dropped well over 100,000 Medicaid recipients, mostly for not returning renewal forms or requested information.Īrkansas officials said they are following a timeline under a 2021 law that requires the state to complete its redeterminations within six months of the end of the public health emergency.
In Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, New Hampshire and Oklahoma, about half or more of those whose eligibility cases were completed in April or May lost their Medicaid coverage, according data reviewed by the AP. The Arkansas Department of Health has stopped daily updates on covid-19 cases and deaths and has shifted to a new data hub with weekly updates. Of those that lost coverage, 4-out-of-5 were for procedural reasons, according to the U.S. Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19. Some haven’t dropped anyone from their rolls yet while others already have removed tens of thousands of people.Īmong 18 states that reported preliminary data to CMS, about 45% of those whose renewals were due in April kept their Medicaid coverage, about 31% lost coverage and about 24% were still being processed. In the state-specific view of the graph, this two-week period is highlighted in orange if cases are trending upward, or green if they are trending down. This pages tracks the history of coronavirus cases in Pope County, both recent and all-time. States are moving at different paces to conduct Medicaid eligibility determinations. Get the answers here, with data on cases and infection rates. Nobody “should lose coverage simply because they changed addresses, didn’t receive a form, or didn’t have enough information about the renewal process,” Becerra said in a statement.
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