One provider said she worried that the loss of coverage is leading to more patients delaying important health care.
Over the last two months, close to 40% of people previously on Medicaid who were up for review — nearly 14,000 people — were dropped from the program for procedural reasons, which often means that a family didn’t receive or respond to mail from the Division of Public Assistance requiring them to verify their eligibility for the program.
She said that as part of that review, applications are being reopened in an effort to increase the number of people who can keep their health coverage. The state is also working on setting up a system to send text messages to people who are missing information. Before eligibility reviews resumed, approximately one in three Alaskans were enrolled in the state’s Medicaid programs, which are sometimes referred to as DenaliCare and Denali KidCare, and thousands more could lose their coverage in the coming months.
At the Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center, a federally qualified health center where half of all patients are enrolled in Medicaid, clinic chief executive officer Lisa Aquino said staff have seen a recent increase in the number of patients who’ve been impacted by the change.
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