undocumented residents enrolled in Medicaid

An administration effort to identify undocumented U.S. residents illegally enrolled in Medicaid is not turning up many undocumented residents illegally enrolled in Medicaid. At least not so far. Last fall, the administration sent the names of hundreds of thousands of suspected illegal Medicaid participants to the states and directed them to review the eligibility of those individuals. Data from five states, however, has not turned up many such individuals. Between them, Colorado and Pennsylvania reviewed 79,000 names and found none illegally enrolled in their state Medicaid programs. Texas reviewed 28,000 records and terminated 77 people from the program. Ohio checked [...]