All Hands on Deck: Medicaid Beneficiaries Must Take Action to Keep Their Coverage

We need your help get the word out to people enrolled in Medicaid that they may have to take action to remain covered and that there are steps they can take if they lose Medicaid.

As we’ve discussed on this blog before (on 3/22 and 5/15), at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, significant changes were made to Medicaid enrollment and eligibility rules to prevent people from losing Medicaid coverage during the pandemic. With the end of the federal Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023, those flexibilities have ended, and all states are resuming their regular processes for renewing individuals’ Medicaid coverage.

Based on data from 28 states and the District of Columbia, Kaiser Family Foundation reports that more than 1.6 million people have been disenrolled from Medicaid as of July 5, 2023. Many of these people may still be eligible for Medicaid but lost coverage because they didn’t return forms (or either they or the state made other mistakes).