Colorado Public Health Association’s Post

Most People Dropped in Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ Never Tried to Renew Coverage, Utah Finds A survey found that over half of the people who lost Medicaid coverage in Utah did not attempt to renew it, often due to difficulties with paperwork requirements. Visit the link below to learn more. https://lnkd.in/g9WM6_7e #Medicaid #healthcare #insurance #coverage #healthpolicy #Utah #disenrollment #proceduralissues #healthnews

Health Payer Intelligence comments on how surprise billing is pretty common, yet members rarely challenge it due to a lack of health literacy. This is a huge issue in the health insurance world that companies need to prioritize. Members' education is vital to ensuring they receive high-quality care without delay. Spreading awareness about these trends in health insurance is another way to increase member knowledge to avoid people paying higher bills, getting claims denied, and having a delay in care. #HealthInsurance #Medicaid #SurpriseBilling

Interesting read - Many Americans face unexpected medical bills or coverage denials but rarely challenge them due to a lack of awareness and understanding of the plans, billing practices, and basic rights. The burden to educate and empower members falls on the insurers - as well as employers, and even our government agencies. People simply do not understand the health insurance ecosystem, and we collectively need to educate consumers so they understand their rights. #PatientAdvocacy #HealthLiteracy #InsuranceEducation #SurpriseBilling #HIM #RevenueCycle #MedicalBilling

Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year are now uninsured. The struggle to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people is concerning and reveals a concerning trend as pandemic-era protections expire. According to a recent survey by KFF, nearly half of those who lost coverage signed back up later, suggesting they should never have been dropped in the first place. Learn more about the healthcare coverage gap here! #atwhealth #ppiconline #healthequity #qualityimprovement #healthcaretransformation #patientengagement

Nearly a quarter of adults disenrolled from Medicaid in the past year are now uninsured. The struggle to retain coverage in the government insurance program for low-income people is concerning and reveals a concerning trend as pandemic-era protections expire. According to a recent survey by KFF, nearly half of those who lost coverage signed back up later, suggesting they should never have been dropped in the first place. Learn more about the healthcare coverage gap here! #atwhealth #ppiconline #healthequity #qualityimprovement #healthcaretransformation #patientengagement

This is awful. It is a known fact that preventative care saves lives AND money. It's also known that people without #insurance are less likely to get #preventativecare. Not insuring people spends more money while harming patients. If there are administrative barriers to getting insurance, it's the same thing. We need to make #insurance and #preventativecare easy to access. Doing so saves #money and it saves #lives. This should not be a difficult decision. #healthcareaccess #disparities #insurance #medicaid #barriers

The #CMS has issued a Final Rule to standardize the #Medicaid enrollment and renewal process. The rule makes it easier to enroll and renew by: ➡️ Eliminating annual and lifetime limits on children's coverage in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (#CHIP). ➡️ Ending the practice of kicking children out of CHIP coverage if a family is unable to pay premiums. ➡️ Eliminating waiting periods for CHIP coverage so children can access health care immediately. ➡️ Improving the transfer of children seamlessly from Medicaid to CHIP when a family's income rises. ➡️ Requiring states to provide all individuals with at least 15 days to provide any additional information when applying for the first time and 30 days to promptly return documentation when renewing coverage. ➡️ Prohibiting states from conducting renewals more frequently than every 12 months and requiring in-person interviews for older adults and those with disabilities. #healthcare #medicine #business #education

Uninsured Rate Rises To 8.2% As States Resume Medicaid Eligibility Checks, CDC Finds Healthcare Dive (8/7, Pifer) reports, “The percentage of Americans without health insurance grew to 8.2% in the first quarter of this year as states culling their Medicaid rolls reversed a once-record low uninsurance rate, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.” Specifically, “an additional 1.6 million people lost coverage from January through March, bringing total Americans without insurance to 27.1 million, the CDC said.” Many Americans who are losing coverage “have turned to the Affordable Care Act exchanges for insurance, causing enrollment in the plans to swell to historic highs this year.” The rate of uninsured Americans “could hit 8.9% over the next decade because of Medicaid unwinding and the loss of the subsidies, according to recent projections from the Congressional Budget Office.” https://lnkd.in/gu_Fiu7Y

Uninsured Rate Rises To 8.2% As States Resume Medicaid Eligibility Checks, CDC Finds Healthcare Dive (8/7, Pifer) reports, “The percentage of Americans without health insurance grew to 8.2% in the first quarter of this year as states culling their Medicaid rolls reversed a once-record low uninsurance rate, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.” Specifically, “an additional 1.6 million people lost coverage from January through March, bringing total Americans without insurance to 27.1 million, the CDC said.” Many Americans who are losing coverage “have turned to the Affordable Care Act exchanges for insurance, causing enrollment in the plans to swell to historic highs this year.” The rate of uninsured Americans “could hit 8.9% over the next decade because of Medicaid unwinding and the loss of the subsidies, according to recent projections from the Congressional Budget Office.”

Uninsured Rate Rises To 8.2% As States Resume Medicaid Eligibility Checks, CDC Finds Healthcare Dive (8/7, Pifer) reports, “The percentage of Americans without health insurance grew to 8.2% in the first quarter of this year as states culling their Medicaid rolls reversed a once-record low uninsurance rate, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.” Specifically, “an additional 1.6 million people lost coverage from January through March, bringing total Americans without insurance to 27.1 million, the CDC said.” Many Americans who are losing coverage “have turned to the Affordable Care Act exchanges for insurance, causing enrollment in the plans to swell to historic highs this year.” The rate of uninsured Americans “could hit 8.9% over the next decade because of Medicaid unwinding and the loss of the subsidies, according to recent projections from the Congressional Budget Office.”