Half a million Americans 含むing children left without health 保険 for over a month after Medicaid glitch
- The computer 問題／発行するs 影響する／感情d people in 29 明言する／公表するs and the 地区 of Columbia
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Half a million people were left without health 保険 fore more than a month に引き続いて a 政府 glitch.
明言する／公表するs are?緊急発進するing to 直す／買収する，八百長をする computer systems?that 誤った kicked 患者s off Medicaid after the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
The computer 問題／発行するs 影響する／感情d people in 29 明言する／公表するs and the 地区 of Columbia and likely 含むd a 重要な number of children.
All 明言する／公表するs are 請け負うing a 大規模な review of their Medicaid rolls?after a three-year, pandemic-時代 禁止 on ending ニュース報道 満了する／死ぬd this spring.?
While the 凍結する was in 影響, Medicaid enrollment swelled by nearly one-third, from 71 million people in February 2020 to 94 million in April 2023.
FILE - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services building is seen, April 5, 2009, in Washington. About 500,000 people who recently lost Medicaid ニュース報道 are 回復するing their health 保険 while 明言する／公表するs 緊急発進する to 直す／買収する，八百長をする computer systems that didn't 適切に 評価する people's 適格（性） after the end of the coronavirus pandemic, 連邦の 公式の／役人s said Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, とじ込み／提出する)
明言する／公表するs often use computer programs as a first step in 決定するing whether people should be automatically re-入会させるd in Medicaid.?
If their 適格（性） is 不明瞭な, 明言する／公表するs then 試みる／企てる to 接触する people by mail, phone, text or email 捜し出すing 付加 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）.?
If that doesn't work, people are?dropped from the rolls in what CMS 述べるs as a 'procedural termination.'
In late August, CMS 警告するd?that some 明言する／公表する computer systems were flagging entire 世帯s for その上の （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） - and dropping all family members when no one 答える／応じるd - instead of reviewing each individual 分かれて and automatically 新たにするing children who remain 適格の.?
It sent letters to all 明言する／公表するs asking them to 立証する their 同意／服従 with 連邦の 支配するs.
New CDC data shows 記録，記録的な／記録する 40% of adults are obese in these three 明言する／公表するs?
In 2022, a 記録，記録的な／記録する three 明言する／公表するs had more than 40 パーセント of their adults 分類するd as obese ― West Virginia, Louisiana and Oklahoma ― and 19 明言する／公表するs had 率s over 35 パーセント.
For 明言する／公表するs in 違反, 連邦の 公式の／役人s 要求するd them to 遡って 回復する Medicaid ニュース報道 to those 影響する／感情d and to 停止（させる） procedural terminations until their systems are 直す／買収する，八百長をするd.
Some 明言する／公表する Medicaid directors said Thursday that they were unaware they had been doing things incorrectly.
'It was never （疑いを）晴らす that this was against the 支配する or against the 規則, because if it was, we would have been doing it 異なって a long time ago,' said Cindy Beane, commissioner of the West Virginia Bureau for 医療の Services and 大統領，／社長 of the 国家の 協会 of Medicaid Directors.
より小数の than 5,500 children were 影響する／感情d by the problem in West Virginia and are having their ニュース報道 回復するd, she said.
The 衝撃 was larger in New York. Around 70,000 people, 含むing about 41,000 children, were inappropriately dropped from Medicaid in June, July and August because of automation 問題／発行するs and will have their ニュース報道 復帰させるd for an 付加 12 months, beginning as soon as Friday, New York Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri said.
He said 明言する／公表する 労働者s will manually review 適格（性） for individuals within 世帯s until 請負業者s can create a 永久の 直す／買収する，八百長をする 早期に next year.
公式の／役人s in Nevada and Pennsylvania each 概算の that more than 100,000 people may have lost ニュース報道 because of shortcomings in their 自動化するd 再開 systems, によれば data 分配するd by CMS.
But no more than a couple thousand people were 影響する／感情d in Nebraska, said 明言する／公表する Medicaid Director Kevin Bagley. And only about 4,800 - 非，不，無 of whom were children - were 影響する／感情d in Massachusetts, said that 明言する／公表する's Medicaid director, マイク Levine. Both nonetheless 表明するd 失望／欲求不満 that 連邦の 公式の／役人s hadn't 最高潮の場面d the 必要物／必要条件 sooner.
'I would have loved to have learned about this a year ago,' Levine said. 'But in either 事例／患者, we´re learning now and moving 今後. It will just be another enhancement to our 過程.'
自動化するd 適格（性） systems 変化させる by 明言する／公表する and can be technically challenging and 高くつく／犠牲の大きい to change, said Kate McEvoy, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of the 国家の 協会 of Medicaid Directors.
Some 明言する／公表するs 推定する／予想する to 完全にする system 改良 before the end of September while others 推定する／予想する it to take several months, said Daniel Tsai, director of the CMS 中心 for Medicaid and Children´s Health 保険 Program Services.
More than 7 million people have been dropped from Medicaid since the pandemic-時代 保護s ended, によれば the nonprofit health 政策 organization KFF. Some 明言する／公表するs have been more 積極的な than others in 停止（させる）ing ニュース報道 for those who don't 答える／応じる to 再開 notices.
'There are 明言する／公表するs that are approaching Medicaid rolls with the idea 存在 `the 支配するs are the 支配するs, and 消費者s need to 耐える the 重荷（を負わせる） of playing by the 支配するs,'' said David Adkins, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of The 会議 of 明言する／公表する 政府s.?
Other 明言する／公表するs 'are looking at it as 消費者s with health care are a good thing, so we should be trying to 人物／姿／数字 out how do we find ways to keep people who are truly qualified on Medicaid.'
