On December 18, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a suite of Medicaid unwinding-related guidance and enrollment data that includes a focus on ensuring eligible children maintain Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage. In conjunction with CMS’ release, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sent letters to the governors of nine states with the highest child disenrollment rates by number and percentage—Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota, and Texas—which accounted for 60% of the decline in children’s Medicaid and CHIP enrollment between March and September 2023. The letters encourage the nine states to adopt certain strategies, depending on the identified state-specific deficiencies, to mitigate coverage loss for eligible children.

In a new expert perspective prepared for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health and Value Strategies program, Manatt Health discusses CMS’ children-specific and broader unwinding-related resources.

To read the expert perspective, click here.