Headline : NC’s unique Medicaid renewal strategy results in minimal issues during ‘unwinding’

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In June 2023, the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services began verifying the eligibility of 2.5 million Medicaid participants for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This marked the start of the so-called unwinding of the continuous coverage requirement, a federal provision that provided states with increased funding for Medicaid in exchange for not removing beneficiaries from the rolls while the national emergency declaration for COVID-19 was in place. 

Under the provision, people enrolled in the government-funded insurance program were automatically re-enrolled, even if changes in their income or household size meant they no longer qualified for coverage. In North Carolina, Medicaid beneficiaries need to recertify their eligibility for the program at least once a year to keep receiving benefits. In light of the extraordinary health care emergency, Congress waived this requirement. 

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