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"Massive Medicaid Reinstatement: Over 500,000 Children and Families Regain Coverage"

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"Massive Medicaid Reinstatement: Over 500,000 Children and Families Regain Coverage"
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Approximately 500,000 children and families have had their Medicaid coverage reinstated after being improperly terminated by many states due to a systems issue. Some states were considering entire families as a whole without considering higher household income thresholds for children. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instructed states to evaluate each member of the household individually, resulting in 29 states and the District of Columbia pausing disenrollment and restoring coverage. CMS did not provide a breakdown of how many children were among the 500,000 people who regained coverage. States are currently reevaluating the eligibility of over 87 million people in Medicaid and several million more in the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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  1. Half a million children and families regain Medicaid coverage  CNN
  2. Nearly 500000 in U.S. Will Regain Health Insurance After State Errors  The New York Times
  3. Half a million children, others being reinstated after removal from Medicaid  The Washington Post
  4. Feds say Minnesota must restore Medicaid coverage, pause disenrollments  Star Tribune

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