Tag Archives: Enrollment

Bracing for the inevitable end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS has begun issuing voluminous guidance to states on unwinding Medicaid’s continuous enrollment requirement without precipitating a calamitous drop in coverage. We’ve previously discussed the continuous enrollment requirement here, here and here.

By way of background, section 6008 of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA),… More

For much of the past two years, enrollment in the Medicaid and CHIP programs has been declining.  In May, 2017, enrollment in both programs was 74.6 million people.  As of May of this year, enrollment had declined by 2.5%, to 72.8 million.  This decline has applied across the board, in almost every state, for adults and for children.

Superficially, this might make sense;… More