Giving Thanks in Turbulent Times

A largely effective Medicaid renewal program: Earlier this year, I wrote about what’s known as the “<a href="https://medium.com/@davidsandman/keeping-new-york-covered-1ea113fa24f0" rel="noopener">Medicaid unwinding</a>” — the rollback of a pandemic-era policy that prohibited states from terminating Medicaid enrollees’ health insurance. The expiration of that policy required that all states begin recertifying all Medicaid beneficiaries earlier this year. It is estimated that at least <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/health/medicaid-children-lost-coverage.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">2 million children</a> across the country have already lost coverage despite remaining eligible, often because of missing paperwork and errors by states. New York State is doing a lot better in comparison. This <a href="https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-enrollment-and-unwinding-tracker/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">state-by-state tracker</a> from KFF shows that, of New York beneficiaries who’ve needed to redetermine their eligibility to date, two-thirds have successfully renewed their coverage. By comparison, in Texas, only one-third of renewals have been successful. New York is also tracking and sharing its own more detailed monthly data;  <a href="https://davidsandman.medium.com/giving-thanks-in-turbulent-times-3f7e07fe1705">Visit Now</a>