In a Sept. 27 column, Stan Dorn, director of the health policy project at Hispanic civil rights organization UnidosUS, and Sara Rosenbaum, the Harold and Jane Hirsh Professor of Health Law and Policy at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health in Washington, D.C., said CMS can add more options for verifying eligibility for Medicaid beyond evidence that specifically shows income and household size.
The authors suggest pathways like using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program status to determine Medicaid eligibility or a child’s caretaker’s status could eliminate additional administrative hurdles as people are at risk of being dropped from Medicaid.
The authors write that state and federal agencies are doing their best to prepare for a “tsunami” of Medicaid loss.
“Those efforts are being hamstrung by unnecessary and legally questionable limitations on the kinds of information that states may use to verify financial eligibility,” the authors wrote.
Read the full opinion here.
