Nevada had one of the nation’s highest Medicaid disenrollment rates due to procedural causes like missing paperwork during the process of unwinding a federal policy designed to keep people covered under Medicaid during the pandemic.
States are turning to the big health insurance companies to keep Medicaid enrollees insured once pandemic protections end in April. The insurers’ motive: profits.
The plans have a strong financial incentive to keep their members enrolled because states pay them per member, per month: The more people they cover, the more money they get.