California Sued Over Medi-Cal Application Backlog; GOP Faults CMS For Medicaid Pileup

Medicaid-beneficiary advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday (Sept. 17) in California accusing the state of making hundreds of thousands of Medicaid applicants wait months without coverage that many desperately need and, by law, deserve. A day later, key House and Senate Republicans blamed CMS for the application logjams in many states. California is among a handful of states that CMS is trying to get to cut down on unusually large backlogs of Medicaid applicants. California in March had 900,000 Medicaid applications...