Until recently, Jonathon Murray relied on Medicaid to pay for treatments for multiple health conditions, including chronic insomnia. Murray, a 20-year-old restaurant worker from the college town of Brookings, South Dakota, said that without his medication, he would stay awake for several nights in a row.
Thousands of South Dakotans are being knocked off Medicaid, only to be eligible to requalify several months later. Even more enrollees are likely to experience a temporary loss of coverage in North Carolina.
States will be disenrolling people from Medicaid as pandemic-era policies wind down. But in two states, some who lose coverage may requalify months later, once Medicaid expansion takes effect.
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota’s Medicaid program is on track to start offering benefits to thousands more people on July 1. Voters last November approved expanding eligibility to cover people whose household income is up to 138% of the federal poverty level. State Medicaid director Sarah Aker on Tuesday briefed the South Dakota Board […]
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