Suit is the first in the nation to challenge states resumption of reviewing Medicaid enrollees eligibility and dropping those deemed no longer qualified . The process which Congress had suspended for three years during the Covid pandemic restarted as early as April . Plaintiffs argue that the notices the agencies are sending to inform enrollees that they are no longer eligible are confusing and don’t provide sufficient explanation as to why they are losing coverage . Nationwide more than . million people have been disenrolled since the socalled Medicaid unwinding began in the spring according to KFF . Nearly three quarters of those who have lost coverage were dropped for procedural reasons . Hundreds of thousands more will have their coverage reviewed in the coming year . Nearly Florida residents have had their coverage renewed according to the KFF. According to . KFF formerly the Kaiser Family Foundation. This often happens because it may have been sent to an old address it was difficult to understand or it was returned by the deadline . This often happened because it was sent to old addresses it was . difficult to find a new address or it may not be returned by a new deadline . The Agency for Health Care Administration did not immediately return a request for comment . Mallory McManus deputy chief of staff for the Department of Children and Families said the letters to recipients are legally sufficient. There are multiple steps in the eligibility determination process and the final letter is just one of multiple communications from the . Department of … McMcManus added that the final letters are just one to … the final . to recipients. There is a final letter to recipients in the final [blankblankblank blank blank blankblankblank Blank Blank Blankblankblanknessblankness. It is legally sufficient to Blank Blankness Blankness. The federal Centers for
Lawsuit seeks to halt Medicaid terminations in Florida . Lawsuit wants to stop Medicaid
