Sabrina Corlette, Jason Levitis, and Tara Straw*
The long-expected return to Medicaid eligibility re-determinations and renewals, known as the “Medicaid unwinding,” has begun. Over the following 14 months, Medicaid businesses should assess the eligibility of over 90 million enrollees, roughly 18 million of whom will probably be terminated from Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). A very good many of those people will probably be eligible for both employer-sponsored insurance coverage or a backed plan on the medical health insurance Marketplaces.
In a brand new skilled perspective for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health & Value Strategies program, Sabrina Corlette, Jason Levitis, and Tara Straw present a guidelines of actions state-based marketplaces (SBMs) and state insurance coverage departments (DOIs) can take, in the event that they haven’t already, to cut back gaps in protection and decrease disruptions in care. Many are designed to be momentary, and will probably be essential to serving to folks navigate an unprecedented interval of disruption. Other actions contain insurance policies or operational enhancements that might reap long-term advantages by mitigating dangers inherent in Medicaid-Marketplace “churn.” Download the total article right here.
*Jason Levitis is a Senior Fellow on the Urban Institute and Tara Straw is a Senior Advisor at Manatt Health. Both additionally function technical help suppliers to the State Health & Value Strategies program.