[see updates at bottom and followup re immediate Medicaid enrollments]
Congratulations to Louisiana for kicking off enrollment in Medicaid under its newly enacted ACA Medicaid expansion today. Enrollment begins today and is effective July 1.
The state estimates that 375,000 residents are newly eligible for Medicaid under the program. According to HHS, the state will be the first in the nation to use food stamp (SNAP) data to determine eligibility and enroll people in Medicaid. The Medicaid program has a dedicated website, Healthy Louisiana, that makes online enrollment at least look easy. On the phone, though, I got stuck in impenetrable feedback.loops calling the number there and on the state Dept. of Health & Hospitals website trying to get a live person (there is no media information number listed on either site). I suspect that outgoing GOP governor Bobby Jindal's massive cuts to government agencies has something to do with that.
One subset of newly eligible potential Medicaid enrollees that causes some inevitable disruption in states that belatedly accept the ACA Medicaid expansion is people currently enrolled in ACA marketplace plans whose income now qualifies them for Medicaid.
Congratulations to Louisiana for kicking off enrollment in Medicaid under its newly enacted ACA Medicaid expansion today. Enrollment begins today and is effective July 1.
The state estimates that 375,000 residents are newly eligible for Medicaid under the program. According to HHS, the state will be the first in the nation to use food stamp (SNAP) data to determine eligibility and enroll people in Medicaid. The Medicaid program has a dedicated website, Healthy Louisiana, that makes online enrollment at least look easy. On the phone, though, I got stuck in impenetrable feedback.loops calling the number there and on the state Dept. of Health & Hospitals website trying to get a live person (there is no media information number listed on either site). I suspect that outgoing GOP governor Bobby Jindal's massive cuts to government agencies has something to do with that.
One subset of newly eligible potential Medicaid enrollees that causes some inevitable disruption in states that belatedly accept the ACA Medicaid expansion is people currently enrolled in ACA marketplace plans whose income now qualifies them for Medicaid.
