Maryland officials are preparing for as many as 80,000 residents who could no longer qualify for Medicaid coverage this spring
, as the federal government reinstates a requirement that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic for states to verify the eligibility of recipients.
Medicaid enrollment ballooned during the pandemic, in part because the federal government prohibited states from removing people from the program during the public health emergency once they had enrolled. “We’ve had the largest number of folks put into Medicaid during this COVID ," Eberle told Maryland Senate’s Finance Committee. “We ran a COVID special enrollment period over 2020 and 2021, and our numbers have just skyrocketed in Medicaid, and we don’t want to lose those people, so we’re working very closely with our department of health.”
“The communications campaign will include paid media, social media messaging, and other advertising and digital campaigns, in addition to targeted outreach by the MCOs,” the health department said in an email. “We are very concerned," Lam said in a recent interview."We made a lot of strides during the pandemic. We don’t want the post-pandemic period to be a period where we see the greatest number of Marylanders thrown off our health insurance rolls.”
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