The Families First Coronavirus Response Act required states to allow Medicaid recipients to stay enrolled even if their eligibility changed. That requirement ends April 1, and with states once again able to remove people from the program, health care officials across the country are worried.
Donald Lloyd, CEO and president of St. Claire HealthCare in Morehead, Kentucky, has spent more than a year dealing with higher costs for food and medical supplies for his regional hospital. Now he’s trying to prepare for another financial hit – the loss of Medicaid reimbursements for treating people in rural Appalachia.
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