Association Of State Policies With Medicaid Disenrollment Among Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT: For some low-income Medicare beneficiaries, Medicaid provides financial protection against Medicare's out-of-pocket costs, but many Medicare beneficiaries who qualify for Medicaid are not continuously enrolled. We examined Medicaid disenrollment among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries and the relationship between disenrollment and state policies. In the period 2012-16, 18.2 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who received full or partial Medicaid disenrolled for reasons other than death. More than 50 percent of Medicare beneficiaries who remained without Medicaid one year after disenrolling continued to receive low-income subsidies for Medicare Part D coverage with eligibility requirements similar to those of Medicaid. Among Medicare beneficiaries with continuous Part D subsidies, the r

SUBMITTER: Roberts ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6690844 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature