Medicaid Directors Cautiously Prepare For PHE To Expire In January

State Medicaid directors are getting anxious as the Biden administration has yet to announce whether it will extend the public health emergency beyond mid-January, making it difficult for them to prepare to restart the process of reviewing Medicaid beneficiary eligibility and train staff on a renewal process that hasn’t been done in nearly two years. One state Medicaid director said about 40% of his staff have never done an eligibility redetermination before. The National Association of Medicaid Directors asked the...