Some Medicaid recipients tell The Associated Press errors and confusion are leading to them being kicked off the federally and state-funded health coverage program
Alicia Celaya, David Cardenas and their son Adrian, 3, are shown at their home, Thursday, April 27, 2023, in Phoenix. Celaya and her family will lose their medicaid coverage later this year, a result of a year-long nationwide review of the 84 million Medicaid enrollees that will require states to remove people whose incomes are now too high for the program.
Millions are expected to be left without insurance after getting a reprieve for the past three years during the coronavirus pandemic, when the federal governmentAdvocacy groups have warned for months that confusion and errors will abound throughout the undertaking, wrongly leaving some of the country's poorest people suddenly withoutMedicaid enrollees are already reporting they've been erroneously kicked off in a handful of states that have begun removing people, including Arizona,...
Some people have been mailed pre-populated application forms that include inaccurate income or household information but leave Medicaid enrollees no space to fix the state's errors. Others have received documents that say Medicaid recipients will lose their coverage before they've even had an opportunity to re-apply, Hawkins said.
After their son Ryder was diagnosed with cancer in September 2021, Allie McHenry quit her job to take care of him, leaving the family with a single income from Kyle McHenry's job as a heavy diesel mechanic. She signed the family up for Medicaid then but says they were initially denied because the state wrongly counted disability payments for Ryder's cancer as income.
Some doctors and their staffs are taking it upon themselves to let patients know about the complicated process they'll have to navigate over the next year.
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