Mississippi’s Medicaid rolls are shrinking. And for thousands, that coverage has been dropped in the last few months.
Imagine showing up at the doctor’s office only to find out you don’t have health care coverage anymore. That’s happened to some of you in recent months. More than 81,000 Mississippians have been dropped from Medicaid as part of the “unwinding” since the COVID-19-era continuous enrollment provision ended. “We’re in the communities a lot,” explained Oleta Fitzgerald, Southern Regional Director with the Children’s Defense Fund. “So, we have understood from those visits, and being with those groups of people that folks just simply are not aware that, you know, they had to go back and recertify the Medicaid following COVID.”