Tsai: Data Is Only Part Of Medicaid PHE Unwinding Enforcement

States’ willingness to work with CMS and follow federal Medicaid redetermination guidelines will play a bigger role in determining their compliance with the Medicaid unwinding requirements -- and whether they are fined -- than their redetermination data, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Director Daniel Tsai says. While advocates hope data could be used to track how the redetermination process proceeds in different states, CMS says it probably won’t publicly release state-reported data on the unwinding until July, when the...