Subscribe (free) to xpostfactoid
 |
| NJ FamilyCare end-of-PHE alert |
The pending end of the Public Health Emergency declared by the federal government in March 2020 will trigger something of an earthquake among Medicaid enrollees.
As of May of this year, enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP had increased by 18.3 million -- 26% -- since February 2020, the last month unaffected by the pandemic. Some 90 million Americans, well more than a quarter of the population, are now enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP. That increase is mostly due to a moratorium on disenrollments enacted in March 2020 as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response act, which conditioned a 6.2% increase in the federal government's share of each state's Medicaid costs on implementing the moratorium (all states complied). The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) estimates that 84% of the enrollment increase during the pandemic is attributable to the moratorium.
