Geoff Bennett:
Medicaid recipients have typically had to prove their eligibility each year to renew their coverage. But that stopped during the onset of the COVID pandemic.
And, for three years, recipients have been continuously enrolled. But that re enrollment provision ended in April. And, since then, more than 15 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid.
We're joined now by Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at KFF.
Thank you for being with us.
So, Jennifer, what accounts for the 15 million disenrollments? Are people forgetting to reenroll or is something else at play?
Jennifer Tolbert, Deputy Director, Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured, KFF: Well, I think it's a combination of factors.
So, because states kept people on the Medicaid program for three years during the pandemic, there are a number of people who have had changes in circumstances, they have gotten new jobs, they have increased their hours at their existing jobs, and because of that increase in income, are no longer eligible.
But we also know that there are a lot of people who are losing coverage for what are called procedural or paperwork reasons. And this is a situation in which the state is disenrolling someone, even though they don't have information to confirm whether the person is still eligible.
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