Some states are now starting to enforce restrictive rules in Medicaid eligibility programs. Some of the recipients were disenrolled in Medicaid eligibility because of procedural reasons.

Medicaid eligibility removed from Americans because of procedural reasons

Medicaid Eligibility has a role in the country’s healthcare system. This is making it possible for low-income families to access affordable medical care. Medicaid eligibility is the primary source of long-term health coverage.

But more states started implementing strict rules and started to disenroll some beneficiaries of the Medicaid eligibility program.

Most of the reasons for Medicaid eligibility removal were procedural, such as failing to complete required documents.

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These states started the removal of Medicaid eligibility for beneficiaries

Florida, Arkansas, Indiana, Arizona, New Hampshire, Virginia, South Dakota, Iowa, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska are the states which started to remove people from their Medical Eligibility programs.

As of this date, more than 500,000 beneficiaries, were removed from Medicaid eligibility programs. About half of those total were in Florida alone.

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