Health Plans Say Texting Could Mitigate Medicaid Redetermination Snafus

States are struggling to complete Medicaid redeterminations: CMS has said that there are potentially millions of Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program members who were improperly disenrolled due to administrative problems. Some in the managed care industry believe that text messaging could drastically reduce the amount of procedural disenrollments, but a managed care trade group says that regulatory and operational struggles stand in the way of texting’s full potential.

State-led verification of Medicaid eligibility restarted earlier this year after being paused for several years as part of the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to KFF, “at least” 7.87 million people have been disenrolled through Oct. 2 — a figure that is almost certainly an “undercount” due to reporting lags of state data. KFF also found that 73% of people disenrolled from Medicaid lost coverage for “procedural reasons.”

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