Thousands of Alaskans are at risk of losing their Medicaid benefits this year – many because of paperwork issues.
A Medicaid application for Alaska residents. Thousands of Alaskans are at risk this year of losing their coverage.
Division of Public Assistance Director Deb Ethridge said the biggest issue they’re running into is people with old addresses on file. She said some people may not be up for renewal yet, so they shouldn’t worry if they haven’t gotten renewal paperwork in the mail. But everyone enrolled in Medicaid should have received a postcard; those were sent out in April.
“We’re seeing anecdotally with my staff that people didn’t realize they were still on Medicaid and so that may be why they’re not returning the information,” said Ethridge.of people up for renewal over the past three months have been automatically renewed without needing to fill out paperwork. But about another third were procedurally disenrolled.
“There are people that are finding out at really terrible times that they no longer have Medicaid,” said Aquino. “And it’s a surprise to them. And everyone’s trying to do their best to make sure that doesn’t happen, but the reality is that for some people, it is happening.”
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