Political Cartoons View All 1244 Images“They ask questions but they don’t tell us what is going on,” Hawkins said of CMS.
If trends continue, as many as 30 million people could end up being dropped from Medicaid once states finish reviewing their Medicaid rolls, according to Avalere's projections.
The numbers dwarf the Biden administration’s initial projections that only 15 million people would lose coverage throughout the process.
“We have to say it’s going poorly,” Massey Whorley, a principal at Avalere, said of the Medicaid redeterminations.
Some Texas lawmakers have asked CMS to investigate issues in the state, where nearly 1 million have lost Medicaid.
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