Big Medicaid Changes Coming In April

At the end of December, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. (Click here for a helpful explainer of all the Medicaid provisions.) As of April 1, Indiana will be allowed to begin disenrolling individuals from the Medicaid program. (For the past several years the state got an increase in federal funding to not disenroll individuals during the COVID pandemic). How Indiana does this will be important to making sure as few people as possible who are still eligible will lose coverage. In addition to making sure returned mail alone is not a basis for disenrollment, Indiana is required to provide routine reports about the number of people it has processed, call center wait times/volume, and a host of other data. IJP and several other Medicaid advocacy organizations will be carefully monitoring the process to make sure it comports with state and federal law.