Why Medicaid enrollment rates will drop
Pandemic policies permitted Medicaid enrollment to grow by about 20 million people from 2020 to 2022. But one of those policies, continuous enrollment, ended on March 31. Continuous enrollment meant people who might have lost coverage due to income changes or other factors, automatically remained in the program when they otherwise wouldn’t have. Millions of people could lose coverage, even temporarily, despite still being eligible. Here’s how the numbers grew over the pandemic and who the coming changes could impact.
