The federal Medicaid agency says some children may have been wrongly dropped from the government health-care program as states undertake a massive eligibility review
Children in many states are being wrongly cut off from Medicaid because of a “glitch” in the automated systems being used in a massive eligibility review for the government-run health care program, a top Medicaid official said Wednesday.
In most states, children can qualify for Medicaid at household incomes that are several times higher than allowed for adults. States are encouraged to automatically renew people for Medicaid by using computer programs to review income and household information submitted for other social services, such as food aid or unemployment benefits. When that doesn’t work, states are to send notices to homes asking people to verify their eligibility information. When people fail to respond, they are dropped from Medicaid — a move described as a “procedural termination” by Medicaid officials.
He said Maryland is pausing all procedural terminations in August, retroactively reinstating coverage for children who weren’t renewed in the automated process and working to fix its system as quickly as possible.
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