Medicaid Unwinding in the News: July 20, 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: Life is about to get much more expensive for millions of families (Axios: 7/17/2023)
• National: Nearly 3 million people cut from Medicaid coverage even though many might still be eligible (CNBC: 7/18/2023)
• National: Biden HHS Steps In Amid Wave of Medicaid Coverage Cancellations (Bloomberg Law: 7/19/2023)
• National: Medicaid Purge Has Affected at Least 2.1 Million People — Including Children (Truthout: 7/15/2023)
• National: Biden administration asks employers to give more help to workers who lose Medicaid (Associated Press: 7/20/2023)
• National: Medicaid disenrollments paused in a dozen states after failure to comply with federal rules (CNN: 7/20/2023)
• National: White House Asks Pharmacies To Spread Word On IRA, Medicaid Redeterminations (Inside Health Policy: 7/19/2023)
• National: CMS urges states to abide by Medicaid renewal requirement (Fierce Healthcare: 7/19/2023)
• Arizona: How people can avoid a gap in coverage for health insurance (KGUN: 7/19/2023)
• Arkansas: American Lung Association asks Gov. Sanders to pause Medicaid reconsideration (KATV: 7/14/2023)
• California: Millions of Californians Are Expected to Lose Medi-Cal Coverage (The New York Times: 7/17/2023)
• California: Over 34,000 L.A. County households lost Medi-Cal in July amid rollback of COVID rules (Los Angeles Times: 7/20/2023)
• Florida: Florida leads nation for number of patients dropped from Medicaid (Bay News 9: 7/14/2023)
• Florida: Medicaid ‘unwinding’ not what state expected (Florida Politics: 7/20/2023)
• Georgia: Start of eligibility 'redetermination' knocks almost 100,000 Georgians off Medicaid (Gwinnett Daily Post: 7/13/2023)
• Georgia: Almost 100,000 Georgians Lost Their Medicaid and CHIP (HealthNews: 7/17/2023)
• Indiana: Rep. Gregory Porter: Stop cutting people till we know why Hoosiers are losing Medicaid (The Tribune: 7/19/2023)
• Kentucky: In the first two months of resumed checks for Medicaid eligibility, almost half of Ky. members up for renewal lost their coverage (Kentucky Health News: 7/16/2023)
• Maryland: Thousands more Marylanders lose Medicaid as renewal requirements start up (Baltimore Fishbowl: 7/19/2023)
• Michigan: Thousands of Michiganders are losing their Medicaid coverage. What happens now? (Michigan Advance: 7/17/2023)
• Mississippi: 'Tate Reeves doesn't understand': Hospital CEO slams governor for refusing Medicaid expansion (Mississippi Today: 7/13/2023)
• Missouri: Missouri begins removing Medicaid recipients, how to make sure you don't lose coverage (KMBC: 7/16/2023)
• Nebraska: Thousands of Nebraskans have lost Medicaid coverage for not returning paperwork on time (Flatwater Free Press: 7/20/2023)
• North Carolina: New DHHS numbers show thousands of people lost Medicaid in June (NC Health News: 7/19/2023)
• Ohio: Ohio Expects 280,000 Residents to Lose Medicaid Coverage This Year (Cleveland Scene: 7/20/2023)
• Oregon: About three-quarters of Oregonians retain Medicaid coverage during review (Oregon Capital Chronicle: 7/20/2023)
• Oregon: Most people keeping Oregon Health Plan coverage despite eligibility checks (The Lund Report: 7/20/2023)
• Pennsylvania: State officials highlight Medicaid changes (Latrobe Bulletin: 7/14/2023)
• Pennsylvania: Time to talk Medicaid renewals (Northeast Times: 7/19/2023)
• Pennsylvania: Here’s what you need to know about Medicaid redetermination (PhillyVoice: 7/19/2023)
• Pennsylvania: All Pa. Medicaid recipients are due for renewal, but applications have been sparse (PhillyVoice: 7/17/2023)
• Pennsylvania: Stay Covered PA (YourErie.com: 7/19/2023)
• Tennessee: 31,000 lost TennCare coverage in redetermination process (The Claiborne Progress:  7/17/2023)
• Texas: 500,000 Texans have been dropped from the Medicaid rolls since April (The Texas Tribune: 7/17/2023)
• Texas: Editorial: Texas has a Medicaid crisis. Why worsen it with procedural denials? (Dallas Morning News: 7/20/2023)
• Texas: More than 500,000 Texans booted off Medicaid following end of COVID-era enrollment (Dallas Morning News: 7/17/2023)
• Texas: More than 500,000 Texans have lost Medicaid coverage as state re-evalutes those enrolled (Fort Worth Star-Telegram: 7/14/2023)
• Texas: More than 670,000 Texans lose Medicaid coverage as the state unwinds continuous enrollment (KERA: 7/20/2023)
• Texas: Half a million Texans lose Medicaid coverage in past 3 months (Fox 26 Houston: 7/18/2023)
• Wyoming: ‘Waiver’ programs part of Wyoming Medicaid renewals (County 17: 7/20/2023)