In April, the state’s Division of Public Assistance will begin the year-long process of reviewing every Medicaid recipient in the state.
in the midst of the backlog because she said she believes in the department and its mission.
Notifications about when and how to reapply for Medicaid will arrive by mail, and Etheridge said that checking and reading the mail will help speed the process. Kosin said that people tend to fall off the rolls when there’s a change that requires action from the consumer. He said moments like this one require methodical planning and execution.Officials say some reapplications will be processed automatically, but others will need to be done manually by the same eligibility workers that are processing a months-long backlog of food stamps.
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