Millions have been booted from the safety-net program seven months after the expiration of pandemic-era protections, most often due to bureaucratic reasons and not necessarily because they no longer qualify.
"It would be a failure if we come out of this with the same old standards and processes we had in place prior to the public health emergency," New York Medicaid director Amir Bassiri told a national board of Medicaid advisers earlier this month.
Aside from the difficulty of reengaging tens of millions of people whose coverage had been safe for three years, states' outdated eligibility and technology systems and workforce shortages are adding to the challenge of redetermining who's eligible, said Matt Salo, the former executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors.
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