COVID-19 continuous Medicaid eligibility

As many as 12 states have struggled to comply with federal guidelines for redetermining eligibility of their Medicaid population – enough so that the federal government has had to intervene. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reportedly halted Medicaid eligibility redeterminations in six states since April and worked closely with six more after concluding that they were not complying with its guidelines for how to go about redetermining the eligibility of the nearly 94 million Americans who were on the Medicaid rolls when the COVID-19 public health emergency ended.  During that emergency, many people became newly eligible for [...]