CMS announcement comes as states review program eligibility for the first time in three years.
Twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., were erroneously reviewing eligibility for Medicaid at the family level instead of on an individual basis, the agency said. | AP Photo/Julie JacobsonHalf a million people, including a significant number of children, were wrongly kicked off Medicaid because of state system errors, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Thursday.
The agency’s announcement comes as states are reviewing Medicaid eligibility for the first time in three years. During the pandemic, states were barred from removing anyone from Medicaid — even if they were no longer eligible — as a condition for receiving enhanced federal funding, but that requirement ended earlier this year.
As a result of the glitch, families have been flagged as ineligible for Medicaid coverage even if a kid or other household member should still be individually eligible. Adults in most states that have expanded Medicaid qualify for the program if they make up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level while kids can still be eligible at up to 200 or 300 percent, depending on where they live.
Of the states that have been able to estimate the number of affected individuals, Nevada and Pennsylvania reported the biggest coverage losses, with upward of 100,000 people affected in each state. Nevada health officials on Fridayfor about 114,000 people who lost coverage because of the problem.
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