CMS: Health Insurers Can Be Paid to Help With Medicaid Redeterminations

The return of Medicaid redeterminations, which the managed care sector expected to be a daunting challenge, has proven even more difficult to handle than anticipated. States have begun to seek more time and resources from CMS to manage staggering amounts of beneficiary outreach and other administrative chores. Now, thanks to recent regulatory guidance, states can also pay managed care organizations to take on some of that work.

Several states — which are ultimately responsible for handling the income checks and disenrollments necessary for what many have called the “unwinding” of COVID-19 pandemic-related continuous enrollment — have paused redeterminations or extended their deadlines for enrollees to complete their redetermination paperwork, and others may follow. The pauses are clear evidence of the scale and complexity of the task at hand.

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Peter Johnson

Peter Johnson

Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.

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