HHS Creates New State Unwinding Flexibilities As Disenrollments Grow

Managed care plans can help Medicaid beneficiaries complete their renewal forms if the state allows, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra announced Monday (June 12) along with other new state redetermination flexibilities, while pressure increases for the administration to penalize states with mass disenrollments that the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates have reached about 1 million beneficiaries. “I am deeply concerned with the number of people unnecessarily losing coverage, especially those who appear to have lost coverage for avoidable reasons that State Medicaid...