US Coverage Changes During Medicaid Unwinding in 2023.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The unwinding of Medicaid's continuous coverage provision, beginning in April 2023, disenrolled more than 25 million people. Effects on overall insurance coverage-including reenrollment in Medicaid-and affordability of care remain unclear.

Objective

To estimate variation in coverage losses during unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage provision by state and demographic groups and evaluate trends in new Medicaid applications before, during, and after the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study, using administrative data from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state-level Medicaid terminations as a share of pre-unwinding Medicaid enrollment were estimated during the first yea

SUBMITTER: McIntyre A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12514626 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature