DISABILITY SCOOP: As Medicaid Cutoffs Surpass 1 Million, Worries Grow Over Impact On People With Disabilities
Already, states have disenrolled more than a million Medicaid beneficiaries, according to data from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a nonprofit that conducts health policy research. In many cases, people are being cut off because they didn’t complete the renewal process, KFF found, with so-called “procedural disenrollments” accounting for as many as 89% of Medicaid terminations in some states.
