In the last seven months, more than 812,000 children in Texas have lost access to healthcare following the discontinuation of continuous Medicaid renewals implemented during the pandemic.
58% of the 1.4 million Texans removed from federal health insurance programs are children. Texas leads both in total disenrollment and the highest percentage of children affected among states that provide age-specific enrollment data.
Texas has exceeded the estimated 1.3 million people who could lose insurance due to eligibility recalibration.
The state, which already has the highest rate of uninsured individuals nationally, continues to see a significant impact on health coverage.
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Procedural Issues Behind 70% of Medicaid Removals in Texas
Because of formalities such as neglecting to reply to requests for renewal packets from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, almost 70 percent of those in Texas who were kicked off Medicaid were no longer eligible.
When it comes to procedural disenrollment, Texas is more in the middle of the pack; in New Mexico, 96% of individuals are removed from Medicaid rolls, while in Oregon, only 7% of people have their insurance canceled.
A person may be declared ineligible for Medicaid for a variety of reasons, such as earning more than the program’s maximum.
Since the start of the pandemic, many women who were eligible for Medicaid for Pregnant Women have timed out of the program, and a few children have turned 19 and are no longer eligible for coverage.
The state did extend Medicaid for new mothers to cover the full year following delivery in June.
As of Nov. 14, KFF reports that the state had not yet made a decision on nearly 25% of Texas Medicaid renewals.
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