About a half-million people are regaining Medicaid coverage after the federal government says they were dropped inappropriately by states
About 500,000 people who recently lost Medicaid coverage are regaining their health insurance while statesthat didn’t properly evaluate people’s eligibility after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, federal officials said Thursday.
Some state Medicaid directors said Thursday that they were unaware they had been doing things incorrectly. The impact was larger in New York. Around 70,000 people, including about 41,000 children, were inappropriately dropped from Medicaid in June, July and August because of automation issues and will have their coverage reinstated for an additional 12 months, beginning as soon as Friday, New York Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri said.
But no more than a couple thousand people were affected in Nebraska, said state Medicaid Director Kevin Bagley. And only about 4,800 — none of whom were children — were affected in Massachusetts, said that state’s Medicaid director, Mike Levine. Both nonetheless expressed frustration that federal officials hadn’t highlighted the requirement sooner.
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