Pa. Medicaid drops 500,000 people during 'unwinding' year
Last April, more than 3.7 million people were enrolled in Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program. It has dropped to 3.2 million since renewals restarted.
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Last April, more than 3.7 million people were enrolled in Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program. It has dropped to 3.2 million since renewals restarted.
During the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Raphaela Huff didn’t need to worry about retaining her Medicaid coverage.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania is struggling with faulty technology, persistent staffing shortages and flawed procedures as it reassesses health care coverage for hundreds of thousands of adults and children.
Tens of thousands of people in Pennsylvania are believed to have wrongly lost their benefits since the state began “unwinding” pandemic-era protections.
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