Medicaid unwinding problems

After months of vague, general assertions about shortcomings in states’ efforts to redetermine the eligibility of their Medicaid participants as part of the post-pandemic continuous Medicaid unwinding process, the federal government is now revealing which states are having problems – and what those problems are. In public letters to the 50 states, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services cites three major shortcomings in states’ efforts:  paperwork problems, long call center waiting times, and the slow processing of applications. According to the letters, 36 states are falling short on at least one of these measures and five are failing on [...]