(Montana) Around 130,000 Montanans who have lost Medicaid coverage as the state reevaluates everyone’s eligibility following a pause in disenrollments during the covid-19 pandemic.
About two-thirds of those who were kicked off state Medicaid rolls lost coverage for technical reasons, such as incorrectly filling out paperwork. That’s one of the highest procedural disenrollment rates in the nation, according to a KFF Health News analysis.
Homeless people are also losing their coverage despite state officials saying they would automatically renew people who should still qualify by using Social Security and disability data.
Federal health officials warned Montana against disenrolling high rates of people for technicalities, with a particular focus of how it disproportionately affects the children in the families being disenrolled.
