Virginia is likely to face big bills with less money to pay them in the next two-year budget, as the state emerges from the COVID-19 public health emergency with less federal money available to spend and more pressure on the state tax revenues.
Halfway through Virginia’s review of whether millions of Medicaid enrollees are still eligible for coverage after the pandemic, nearly 160,000 Virginians have lost coverage roughly 15% of the over 1 million members whose cases have been reviewed so far. For the past three years, anyone who was enrolled in Medicaid was allowed to keep their coverage
Halfway through Virginia’s review of whether millions of Medicaid enrollees are still eligible for coverage after the pandemic, nearly 160,000 Virginians have lost coverage — roughly 15% of the over
Virginia has reinstated almost 45,000 people - about half of them children - to the state s Medicaid and child health insurance programs after they lost coverage in part because of faulty review of their eligibility to remain on the rolls and in part because the families didn t respond to subsequent requests for information.