“CMS Releases Updated Guidance on Medicaid Eligibility and Redeterminations”

“CMS Releases Updated Guidance on Medicaid Eligibility and Redeterminations,” AAMC

 

Quote:

“On March 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released updated guidance regarding redeterminations of Medicaid beneficiary eligibility for when the public health emergency (PHE) ends. The PHE is currently set to expire on April 15, though it is expected that the administration will extend the expiration for at least an additional 90 days. …The updated guidance will allow states to initiate, rather than complete, redeterminations during the 12-month unwinding period to reestablish a regular schedule of renewals. Additionally, states will be provided an extra two months before they initiate terminations to start the renewal process and until the end of the 14th month to complete all renewals, post-enrollment verifications, and redeterminations based on changes in circumstances.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

The federal Medicaid program forced state Medicaid programs to ignore financial eligibility rules and now delays the return to already loose eligibility enforcement to long after the public health emergency ends. Such fiscal irresponsibility will not survive once printing and borrowing funny money to pay for it is ended by the rising consumer price inflation it causes.