Wyden and Pallone urge CMS to Protect Health Care Coverage During Medicaid Redetermination Process

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"We are writing today to raise our concerns about the state of Medicaid eligibility redeterminations and implications for the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision. We are troubled by early reports that suggest that some states in the first month of redeterminations have disenrolled hundreds of thousands of individuals for procedural reasons, rather than because they were found to be no longer eligible. We are equally troubled that many of those individuals who have lost coverage are children, including newborns. We appreciate [CMS] for taking swift action to monitor state unwinding efforts and strong intention to protect coverage among eligible people. We urge CMS to take timely enforcement action to prevent improper terminations and take other appropriate actions. These additional tools give CMS the means to ensure states are held accountable for complying with federal law, and step in to protect vulnerable populations from being improperly disenrolled from Medicaid. We urge you to move swiftly to use these tools to prevent more coverage losses among eligible children and adults in Florida, Arkansas and other states."

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