CMS Sends States ‘Essential Reminders’ For Medicaid Unwinding

With the estimated number of disenrolled Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries rapidly approaching 20 million, CMS unveiled a detailed slide deck reminding states of what not to do when processing Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) renewals, among other unwinding-related materials. CMS circulated these documents Thursday (March 28) along with its announcement that the unwinding-related special enrollment period would now extend to Nov. 30 . This latest unwinding guidance dump follows the Biden administration’s usual tactic of calling out violations...