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Rescinding the Eligibility and Enrollment Rule Would Thwart Efforts to Improve Efficiency in Medicaid and Efforts to Reduce Improper Payments
Congressional leaders have repeatedly said they are going to protect the most vulnerable from a loss of Medicaid coverage and focus on addressing “waste, fraud, and abuse” but rescinding the Eligibility and Enrollment rule would do neither. The Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (E&E rule) finalized by the Biden Administration in April 2024 is on the…
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Thinking Frequent Medicaid Redeterminations Won’t Hurt Children’s Health Insurance? Take a look at What Happened in Texas.
Nearly half (47%) of the 79 million people who get their health insurance through Medicaid are children. To ensure continuity of coverage for children, Congress took action to protect children’s access to health insurance by requiring states to provide a full year of continuous coverage in Medicaid to children beginning in 2024. But will children’s…
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2025 Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Renewal Policies Survey Released by KFF and CCF
During the unwinding of the COVID-related freeze on disenrollments in Medicaid, states were required to renew health insurance for all 94 million enrollees. The focus on Medicaid renewal processes during the unwinding revealed their complexity and inefficiencies in the system. With states facing an unprecedented volume of work and eligibility worker shortages, CMS provided new…
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New Brief: States Should Act to Ensure All Former Foster Youth Receive Medicaid Continuity of Coverage
A group often overlooked in Medicaid coverage conversations is foster youth. While they are a small segment of the population, youth aging out of foster care have higher physical and mental health care needs than their peers, but often lack health insurance due to high costs. The authors of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) took into…