Continuous Medicaid enrollment ends April 1. First batch of notices issued Feb 6

2.6.23 - During the federal COVID-19 public health emergency, states were not allowed to remove anyone from Medicaid unless they moved out of the state, asked to be removed, or died. This was called continuous Medicaid enrollment or Medicaid Protection.

As people’s situations or incomes changed, some of the people enrolled in Medicaid are no longer qualified to get benefits. And recent federal law allows the department to remove Idahoans who no longer qualify for Medicaid starting April 1.​ Of the nearly 450,000 Idahoans enrolled in Medicaid, 300,000 of those are eligible.

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