Medicaid Unwinding in the News: August 10, 2023

​The Connecting to Coverage Coalition (CCC) has curated a list of recently-published articles covering national and state-specific developments related to the unwinding of Medicaid's continuous enrollment provision. CCC will be posting these links on a weekly basis.

• National: 35% of Medicaid Beneficiaries Say Their Health Plan Hasn’t Reached Out About Renewing Coverage (MedCity News: 8/6/2023)
• National: How to get health insurance if you've lost Medicaid coverage (NBC News: 8/4/2023)
• National: More Than One-Third Of Medicaid Members Haven't Heard From Their Health Plan About Renewal (HealthLeaders: 8/4/2023)
• National: Biden's health care wins are being undone — and at the worst possible time (POLITICO: 8/9/2023)
• National: Biden HHS Presses States Over Obstacles to Medicaid Renewal (Bloomberg Law: 8/9/2023)
• National: Editorial: Paperwork mistakes should not end a child’s health coverage (The Washington Post: 8/10/2023)
• National: A Wave of Students Are Losing Medicaid Coverage. What It Means for Schools. (EducationWeek: 8/9/2023)
• National: Millions losing Medicaid coverage over missed calls, paperwork and confusion about rules (The National Desk: 8/9/2023)
• National: Biden administration warns states as millions lose Medicaid (POLITICO: 8/10/2023)
• National: The Great Disenrollment (Managed Healthcare Executive: 8/10/2023)
• Arkansas: More than 82,000 Arkansans lose Medicaid coverage in July purge (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: 8/9/2023)
• Arkansas: Medicaid rolls reduced by 82,279 in July; total disenrolled more than 300,000 (TalkBusinessNet: 8/8/2023)
• Arkansas: More than 31K Arkansans lost Medicaid coverage for procedural reasons in July (Arkansas Advocate: 8/9/2023)
• Arkansas: 82,000 taken off Medicaid rolls in July (El Dorado News-Times: 8/10/2023)
• Arizona: As many Arizonans lose Medicaid coverage, Phoenix commission fears impact for the disabled (Daily Independent: 8/7/2023)
• Colorado: Over 62,000 Coloradans lost Medicaid in June. How to protect your benefits. (CBS News Colorado: 8/5/2023)
• Georgia: Georgia cuts tens of thousands from Medicaid in first months of pandemic 'unwinding' (WABE: 8/5/2023)
• Georgia: Children account for 71% of Georgians losing Medicaid because of red tape (Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8/9/2023)
• Idaho: Idaho is almost done removing Idahoans on Medicaid it flagged to remove (Idaho Capital Sun: 8/4/2023)
• Illinois: Thousands lose Medicaid coverage in IL after pandemic provision ends (WCIA: 8/7/2023)
• Illinois: Editorial: Keep up outreach to get back Medicaid coverage for dropped recipients (Chicago Sun Times: 8/7/2023)
• Illinois: Thousands of Illinois residents get kicked off Medicaid plans (WBEZ Chicago: 8/5/2023)
• Illinois: 47,000 Illinois residents lose Medicaid coverage (WTVO: 8/3/2023)
• Illinois: More Than 47,000 Illinois Residents Lose Medicaid Coverage as Proof of Eligibility Requirements Resume (WTTW: 8/8/2023)
• Indiana: Help available to Hoosiers navigating Medicaid purge (WRBI: 8/8/2023)
• Indiana: Indiana reevaluates Medicaid coverage post COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (WBIW (8/5/2023)
• Kansas: Kansas official points to mistakes, improvements in processing Medicaid eligibility renewals (Kansas Reflector: 8/4/2023)
• Louisiana: La. removes more than 50,000 from Medicaid at start of disenrollment process (The Louisiana Weekly: (8/7/2023)
• Montana: Montana is among the worst in hold times for calls about Medicaid enrollment (Montana Public Radio: 8/8/2023)
• Michigan: Nearly 23K Michiganders have lost Medicaid, another 123,000 remain at risk (BridgeMichigan: 8/10/2023)
• Minnesota: About 38,000 people lose Medicaid coverage in Minnesota's first group of renewals after pandemic (Minneapolis Star-Tribune: 8/9/2023)
• Minnesota: Medicaid coverage ends for 32,600 Minnesotans, thousands renew (Minnesota Public Radio: 8/9/2023)
• Minnesota: About 38,000 people lose Medicaid coverage in Minnesota's first group of renewals after pandemic (Red Lake Nation News: 8/10/2023)
• Minnesota: Editorial: Medicaid 'unwinding' creates challenges (Minneapolis Star-Tribune: 8/9/2023)
• Missouri: Letter: Missouri can avoid improperly kicking seniors off Medicaid (St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 8/4/2023)
• Missouri: Editorial: Missouri boots 11K kids from Medicaid because it can’t confirm they’re eligible (St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 8/5/2023)
• Missouri: The time is now to renew your Medicaid (Sedalia Democrat: 8/5/2023)
• Missouri: Kids make up half of Missourians who lost Medicaid in first month of reviews (The Daily Journal: 8/10/2023)
• Nevada: Paperwork, technicalities lead to thousands of Medicaid denials for potentially eligible Nevadans (Nevada Current: 8/7/2023)
• North Carolina: Opinion: North Carolina Shows States Can End the Great Medicaid Purge—and So Can the Federal Government (Common Dreams: 8/7/2023)
• Ohio: Ohio toddler with disability among thousands set to lose Medicaid (The Toledo Blade: 8/6/2023)
• Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania cuts at least 137,000 people from Medicaid as some participants fight paperwork denials (WHYY: 8/8/2023)
• Pennsylvania: Comitta reminds Medicaid, CHIP recipients to check renewal dates (The Daily Local: 8/8/2023)
• Tennessee: 27K lost TennCare coverage in May but near-record enrollment has remained (The Center Square: 8/10/2023)
• Texas: Editorial: 500,000 Texans and counting have lost Medicaid coverage (San Antonio Express-News: 8/4/2023)
• Texas: Challenged but growing: Assessing the health of San Antonio's hospitals as Medicaid losses hit (San Antonio Express-News: 8/6/2023)
• Utah: Why are Utahns losing their Medicaid coverage? (The Salt Lake Tribune: 8/9/2023)
• Washington: Changing Medicaid coverage in WA (Fox 13 Seattle: 8/7/2023)
• West Virginia: Another 20K West Virginians lost Medicaid eligibility in July (The Center Square: 8/7/2023)
• Wyoming: ‘Waiver’ Programs Part of Wyoming Medicaid Renewals (SweetwaterNOW: 8/6/2023)
• Wyoming: 10,000 Wyomingites have lost Medicaid or Kid Care coverage. Most are children. (WyoFile: 8/9/2023)
• Wyoming: Wyoming Medicaid Renewals Continue Across State (The Cheyenne Post: 8/10/2023)
• Wyoming: Medicaid renewals cost 10K residents healthcare coverage due to ‘procedural terminations’ (County 17: 8/9/2023)