CMS Releases Updated State Unwinding Timelines, Two Stretch Into 2025

CMS says nine states and the District of Columbia will take longer than the previously scheduled June deadline to complete their post-pandemic review of each Medicaid beneficiary’s eligibility -- a massive undertaking that KFF estimates has led to 22.8 million people losing Medicaid coverage. A more detailed analysis of state unwinding timelines will be released in the coming months, CMS says. Until CMS circulated the slide deck Thursday (June 13), the state-specific timelines haven’t been publicly updated since June 2023...