By Heather Braum, Kansas Action for Children Kansas released the second set of data for how the year-long KanCare unwinding process is going, with data available through June 30, 2023, and has now broken out the data into age ranges and by county for those who had not returned a renewal form in April or May. Since […]
Last Friday, CMS released the first round of long-anticipated Medicaid unwinding data. The main focus has been on the renewal outcome data submitted in state monthly reports, which unfortunately was only available for the 18 states who began terminating coverage as of March 31 or in April 2023 due to a lengthy lag – and […]
By Ella Mathews and Shreya Kalra As Unwinding Wednesday readers know, our 50 State Unwinding Tracker is updated regularly as we monitor new information, specifically new unwinding data, provided by states. The tracker has evolved since we released it almost a year ago – both in the number of states publicly providing unwinding information and […]
As of July 1st all states in the country (except for Oregon) have started the process of renewing and disenrolling children and adults from Medicaid according to CMS’s latest chart. As readers of SayAhhh! are well aware, states are checking eligibility for everyone enrolled in Medicaid after the continuous coverage protections associated with the COVID-19 […]
We’re only four months into the Medicaid unwinding and the scale of coverage loss for procedural reasons is already staggering. An estimated 1.6 million individuals have lost coverage, with 71 percent terminated for procedural reasons. Stories are trickling in about why these procedural disenrollments may be occurring, including families not getting notices in the mail. […]
As readers of SayAhhh! know, we are closely monitoring the impact of Medicaid unwinding. We’ve been worried about inappropriate and large coverage losses for children and families for quite some time now – and as states get started and are reporting large numbers of procedural terminations our fears have not been allayed. There are those […]
