States’ varying approaches complicate effort to determine impact of Medicaid redeterminations

States are taking differing approaches to Medicaid redeterminations, making it difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons of disenrollment data or determine if the process is widening health inequities, experts say.

After years of continuous enrollment during the pandemic, states have begun the complex and unprecedented process of figuring out which beneficiaries are still eligible for coverage under the public insurance program for low-income Americans.

States could begin disenrolling beneficiaries from Medicaid beginning in April. Since then, nearly two million people have been removed across 29 states and Washington, D.C., according to KFF.