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Careful Planning Now Can Reduce Health Coverage Losses When Medicaid COVID-19 Continuous Coverage Ends

March 9, 2022 |
Once the federal government ends the PHE, which is expected to happen no sooner than mid-July, states will resume their regular processes and begin reviewing all enrollees’ eligibility. The risk of mass coverage loss is high — experts estimated in recent months that over 15 million people will lose their coverage at the end of the PHE, and that number is likely higher today.
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Medicaid provides health coverage to low-income families and individuals, including children, parents, pregnant people, seniors, and people with disabilities. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) covers children in families that earn too much to receive Medicaid but can’t afford insurance through the private market.

We work to encourage states to adopt the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, identify obstacles to Medicaid enrollment, develop and advance recommendations to maximize enrollment of eligible people, and protect Medicaid and CHIP from cuts or structural changes that would hurt low-income beneficiaries.

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