By Sabrina Corlette and Maanasa Kona

For the primary time in three years, states have begun (or are about to start) conducting redeterminations of eligibility for Medicaid. Beneath COVID-19 aid laws enacted in March of 2020, state Medicaid applications got a lift in federal financing as long as they shunned terminating protection in the course of the public well being emergency. Since February 2020, enrollment in Medicaid and the Youngsters’s Well being Insurance coverage Program (CHIP) has grown by 19 million individuals. Beginning April 1, 2023, states can as soon as once more terminate Medicaid and CHIP protection for individuals they deem ineligible.

As states put together to renew Medicaid redeterminations, authorities officers are centered on methods to advertise continuity of protection to attenuate the quantity of people that change into uninsured or face a spot in protection. The federal Facilities for Medicare and Medicaid Providers has offered states with steering on when and the way to conduct redeterminations, and the federal medical insurance market has dramatically elevated funding for shopper outreach and help. A number of state-based marketplaces are additionally making ready revolutionary applications, corresponding to auto-enrollment and premium help, to ease protection transitions.

Nonetheless, even those that efficiently shift to a different protection possibility face the danger of disrupted care and lack of entry to suppliers they had been seeing below their Medicaid plans. Many of those individuals can be within the midst of therapy, pregnant, or have critical power situations. It’s, subsequently, critically necessary for states to develop methods to advertise continuity of care.

Of their newest put up for the Commonwealth Fund’s To The Level weblog, CHIR’s Sabrina Corlette and Maanasa Kona evaluate current state-level continuity of care protections and focus on choices for states in search of to make sure that ongoing, crucial look after these within the midst of therapy, pregnant, or managing a power sickness is uninterrupted. You possibly can entry the complete put up right here.