Beginning in May, the state can start ending Medicaid coverage for people who no longer qualify as the federal government reinstates a requirement that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic.
/// State Sen. Clarence Lam, a Maryland Democrat who is a physician at Johns Hopkins, speaks during a news conference about a package of health care legislation on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 in Annapolis, Md.
“We are working through all of those numbers right now, but we believe it’s around 80,000," Eberle told a panel of lawmakers last month. "There’s different little discrepancies of those numbers. The numbers we’ve come up with is about 80,000 that would roll off, people that we’ll have to make sure we’ve got them covered.”
Late last year, Congress told states they could start removing ineligible people in April. Millions of people are expected to lose their coverage, either because they now make too much money to qualify for Medicare or they’ve moved. Many are expected to be eligible for low-cost insurance plans through the Affordable Care Act’s private marketplace or their employer.
“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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