Biden Administration Urges States to Protect Medicaid Enrollees and Slow Down Purges.

The Biden administration is urging state officials to slow down their reviews of Medicaid programs that have already reduced enrollment by more than 1 million nationwide and will likely reduce it by several million more in the months to come. The federal government offered states extra money to administer Medicaid during the pandemic, and in exchange, states agreed to suspend their usual processes for reviewing Medicaid enrollment. Now that arrangement is ending, and states are resuming their eligibility checks, which will inevitably cause many people to lose the Medicaid coverage they currently have.