HHS Urges States to Adopt New Flexibilities to Minimize Erroneous Medicaid Disenrollment During COVID-19 Unwinding Period

HHS Urges States to Adopt New Flexibilities to Minimize Erroneous Medicaid Disenrollment During COVID-19 Unwinding Period

In response to early reports of high Medicaid procedural disenrollment rates, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra is urging governors to adopt all available flexibilities to minimize terminations for procedural reasons during the COVID-19 unwinding period (press release). As part of this call to action, HHS announced several new flexibilities to increase ex parte renewal rates, support enrollees… (Llamas, June 13, 2023) #Coverage Decisions, #COVID-19, #Waivers