CMS Finalizes Rule Overhauling Medicaid Enrollment, Eligibility Processes

Medicaid will now have a consistent state-to-state renewal process, according to the streamlining Medicaid eligibility rule CMS finalized Wednesday (March 27), which includes several reforms aimed at removing red tape and barriers to enrollment, including limiting Medicaid and CHIP renewals to once a year, giving applicants 30 days to respond to information requests and requiring states to prepopulate renewal forms in certain cases. This major overhaul of the enrollment processes for Medicaid and CHIP began with a proposed rule in...