CMS: 14 States Agreed To Pause Medicaid Disenrollments

Fourteen states paused their Medicaid terminations at some point since renewals restarted in April to work on issues CMS found with their renewal requirements, the agency told Inside Health Policy on Tuesday, (Aug. 15), though CMS did not provide details on which states or a timeline for the delays. In July, Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Director Dan Tsai said “about a half dozen states” had paused disenrollments but did not name them. The Biden administration last month...