If you or your child is covered by Medicaid, you need to know that some changes are coming, and you need to take some steps to make sure you aren’t kicked off the rolls.
Georgetown University put out a report on the issue, saying millions of children around the country could lose coverage. So, we wanted to learn how Mississippians would be affected.
“Over the last three years, the Medicaid rolls in Mississippi have increased by over 130,000 and 80,000 of those are children,” described Dr. Anita Henderson, President of the Mississippi chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
But in that same time frame, the way Medicaid operated was different. There was a “continuous enrollment provision” in place. That’s about to expire, and the division will start the redeterminations on April 1.