An estimated 2.7 million Texans are at risk of losing their Medicaid insurance after the public health emergency expires on March 31. Texas healthinsurance Medicaid healthcare txlege
Despite Republican leaders’ past opposition to any expansion of Medicaid, Texas Speaker of the House Dade Phelan and Governor Greg Abbott both have named postpartum Medicaid expansion as a top priority for this session. But even if it passes, it won’t come soon enough to prevent confusion and distress for low-income families.
But with the public health emergency set to expire, advocates say, families are now scrambling to find new coverage options and navigate a complicated and bureaucratic reenrollment process. Still, a family’s ability to enroll their child in a new coverage plan such as CHIP will depend on their knowledge of the upcoming end of continuous coverage and their ability to navigate a complicated bureaucratic process.
At its peak before the pandemic, the system recertified 3.5 million applications per year. Today, the agency is short by more than 300 needed employees and is already working through a backlog of about 130,000 new applications from eligible Texans awaiting approval.
If a family fails to respond to the recertification request, or if their eligibility status has changed, their coverage will be dropped. State officials said they will begin removing Texans from the Medicaid rolls on June 1. If a current Medicaid recipient qualifies for a different state-administered healthcare program, such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program or Healthy Texas Women, they will be transferred.
In addition to the millions of Texas kids who could be affected, advocates are concerned about the estimated 300,000 Texas moms who qualified for Medicaid during their pregnancy and who were able to stay enrolled thanks to the public health emergency designation.
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