The unwarranted removal of potentially millions of children is the most serious defect since states began assessing who remains eligible for Medicaid.
The unwarranted removal of possibly large numbers of children is the most serious defect to materialize since the start this spring of a massive undertaking by every state to figure out who remains eligible for Medicaid.a pandemic-era promise that everyone with the nation’s largest public insurance program could keep it.
Children’s Health Insurance Program],” another federal insurance program for children of working-class families, said Daniel Tsai, federal Medicaid director. During a briefing for reporters, Tsai characterized the glitch as “a very clear issue that extends across multiple states.”Tsai repeatedly declined to specify how many states CMS is already aware are incorrectly removing children or the number of youngsters who have lost insurance.
said millions of children are suspected to be affected, given partial data on the total number of children disenrolled so far through the Medicaid unwinding.According to KFF, a health-care policy organization, just 15 states are making public the number of children who have lost Medicaid for any reason — not simply because of the error CMS is ordering states to fix. In those 15 states, a KFF compilation shows, 1.1 million children have lost Medicaid out of 2.
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