The Washington Post (9/21, Goldstein) reports that “nearly half a million children and other individuals in 30 states have been improperly dropped from Medicaid rolls, prompting federal health officials to halt in more than half the country a large portion of the massive campaign to figure out who qualifies for the safety-net health insurance.” On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “revealed the scope of the trouble, caused by computer systems failing to determine whether individual family members qualify for Medicaid.” CMS officials “said Thursday that states are in the process of reinstating everyone who should not have been cut off from Medicaid.”
The New York Times (9/21, Weiland) reports that last month, the Biden Administration “warned states about the problem, giving them two weeks to report whether they had improperly disenrolled people.” In response to the errors, “nearly 500,000 people, many of them children, will keep Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage…federal officials said on Thursday.”
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