More than 95,000 Georgians lost their Medicaid health coverage last month, the state Department of Community Health reported this week, as Georgia finished its second month of requalifying enrollees.
The state’s Medicaid rolls soared as the annual requalifying requirements were suspended during three years of the pandemic emergency. Like other states, Georgia is asking all its 2.8 million beneficiaries to re-apply, and reviewing cases to weed out those who no longer qualify.
Georgia’s rate of disenrollment so far is the fifth highest in the nation among states publicly reporting the data, said an official with the health research nonprofit KFF. The 95,000 dropped were part of a batch of 160,000 it reviewed in June.
Of those who Georgia cut off, the majority might actually still qualify for Medicaid but lost coverage because the state did not receive updated paperwork it requested from them, DCH reported. If people don’t respond to the state’s warning notices and re-file their application, they’re dropped from coverage.
Comments