Millions of Americans gained Medicaid coverage during the pandemic. Starting next year, millions are likely to lose it.
. That's by design: When the administration first declared the public health emergency , it also barred states from kicking people off Medicaid.
Before states remove Medicaid members, they are required to check patients' eligibility and notify people that they're losing coverage. However, it's not unusual for people who are eligible for Medicaid to nonetheless get dropped from the program because of language barriers or administrative oversight, Tolbert said.
"Moving these people off Medicaid isn't going to happen on day one," said Chris Meekins, an analyst with Raymond James who follows health care."I expect red states have taken steps already to identify who they believe most likely to be ineligible, to target those people first," he said.
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